Weightlifting, the head game side of it

... As an aside, I don't do post-failure work; I just go to true positive/static failure and then finish with a very slow negative.

That's a very interesting aside note. I have found that lifting to overload is not so much a matter of psychology but my ability to release the weight safely following exhaustion. This means I cannot really work to overload with free weights, since I don't have a safe way to release the dumbell/barbell immediately following overload without it crashing to the floor or on my foot.

So I warm up with free weights and then move to a machine for overload. For example, I can do a bicep curl on a cable machine and release the weight (as slowly as I can) so the machine catches it and it doesn't crash to the floor. A Smith machine is really a better example, but I haven't tried that yet.
 
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