How to Make Your Strength Training 3 - 5 Times More Effective
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At The Exercise Coach (www.exercisecoach.com), our proprietary machines allow us to really focus on the eccentric portion of the rep, in a slow manner. We can actually control the time and resistance of both concentric and eccentric portion. For us, it's all about the time under tension, that is why we can do a full body workout in 20 minutes....just doing 7-8 sets. A great book to learn more about training in a slow manner is Body By Science by Doug McGuff and John Little . If there is an Exercise Coach in your city check us out. http://exercisecoach.com/find-a-location
How does this have anything to do with the point of the thread? It's easier to do reps faster than it is to do them slower, so if you're trying to maximize the number of reps for any reason, you'll try to do them faster. Just curious, have you ever actually worked out?This guys goes a little faster than normal. Just think how strong this dude would be if he slowed down and this slower theory worked.
If you can't figure out the point of my post and how it relates to this thread...
you are a colossal fucking idiot. Full stop.
I think Body By Science is a good book. I read both it and the follow-up Q&A book cover to cover, and then reread portions of it. It made me feel that much better about having switched from a high volume routine. Even so, I find the number of exercises and the frequency a bit too low for my taste. Also, I don't much care for the SuperSlow rep speed. However, the book did make me a bit more conscious of an unhurried cadence and the importance of maintaining tension throughout the movement, both concentric and eccentric. The SuperSlow cadence seemed a bit too unnatural.
In fact, there is some evidence that perhaps SuperSlow is not necessary to maximize outcome:
http://baye.com/ss-vs-traditional-reps/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-l...wers/superslow-strength-training/faq-20058220
The following article discusses how the difference in the variation of force between different repetition cadences is very small as long as the turnarounds are performed smoothly.
http://baye.com/repetition-speed-recommendations/
The one thing I didn't like in the Body By Science book was the picture of the guy doing a barbell squat on page 84. I don't think he knows what he's doing.