Heres a golden nugget straight from the new Ultimate S&C Book - TopicsExpress



          

Heres a golden nugget straight from the new Ultimate S&C Book https://philrichardsperformance.co.uk/index.php/ult-s-c.html Your skeletal muscles have three types of contraction (and therefore strength). These are isometric, concentric & eccentric). You should exhaust all three if muscle growth is your objective. You don’t have to do this during every set or training session but I do believe you should do it regularly. For example, let’s use the chin up as an example on how I would exhaust one of my athletes using this method. The athlete would explosively pull themselves up, I would then get them to hold for 5 seconds, then they would lower slowly for 5 seconds then pause at the bottom for two seconds to take any momentum out of the movement, increasing the difficulty of the exercise ten fold. Then I would get as may reps out of the athlete as I possibly could and when they can no longer pull themselves up I would manually lift them up until they then exhaust their isometric and eccentric strength reserves. This is very intense training but the more advanced you become as an athlete then the more intense the stimulus needs to be to keep making progress otherwise the body has no reason to adapt!
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:30:45 +0000

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