I told a gentlemen at my gym once that he should work with his negative motion since he was just using weights throwing DB’s around…
He laughed at me and said ” I haven’t done that in years…. That’s old school!”
Well, he is wrong!
Just that people forget using muscle fibers in every way!
Or sometime ego takes over and says ” you can do heavier than that “!
In Personal Training we call this timing 🙂
Our muscle fiber develope with concentric contraction ( as in lifting a coffee cup), isometricly ( as in drinking the coffee while your arm remains still), and eccentricity as in putting the cup back on the table!
We build muscle in all 3 phases…
So if you cut out one, you are keeping yourself from
getting more and better muscle!!!
Or look at it this way : you are prolonging the time it takes to get the body you want!!!
You can make a workout extremely hard just by changing your timing!
Let’s say your Bicep curl will be a 2-2-3 timing, meaning 2 counts in your concentric phase ( curling your DB up ), 2 counts holding in your concentric phase, 3 counts in your eccentric phase (bringing the DB back down)….
Now change timing to 2-4-6…
See what happens?
It takes 1/2 the time to exhaust that muscle!!!
You can apply this principle almost to all your muscles!
That’s when play time starts :))
Pre exhaust your muscle by doing a 2-4-6 timing, then start partial reps ( 1/2 movements) and finish with a 2-2-2 time….
Kills you everytime!
So, remember to get the body you want use the right timing!
Otherwise you’re just throwing weights….
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