Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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SUPER SLOW lifting

metraa
metraa
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United States
2003/01/17, 09:40 AM
Was wondering if anyone had an opinion on this type of lifting. There is a book Slowburn or something like that where you lift one set of 6-8 exercises(whole body workout) 1-2 times/week. 10 seconds lift/10 seconds to lower.

Any comments?

Thanks, C

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mackfactor
mackfactor
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2003/01/17, 04:10 PM
I'm not a big fan personally. Think of it this way - when you weight train, it's like school for your muscles. Your muscles adapt and 'learn' based on the way you train them. When you train them slowly, in a way, they get slower. You develop more endurance (good for those in grappling sports) and you'll gain size, but lose explosiveness in your muscles. Generally, I use faster contractile speeds and slow it down on the eccentric (lowering) phase to induce hypertrophy. The only reason I can think of to lift (not lower) a weight slowly is if you need improved sustained contraction for a sport.

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metraa
metraa
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United States
2003/01/17, 10:02 PM
Thanks for the response. I spoke with a girl who always ends her sets with one superslow rep, but does not do the whole workout like that.

I looked on Amazon and the book had nothing but positive reviews...I was a little surprised.



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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
----- William Morrow