Workout Routines: King T.U.T (Time Under Tension) Author: William J Sucik Was searching the web the other day for information about
TUT training...
You will certainly reap some benefits from
TUT training, but don't expect them to rock your world.
Not exact matches
Still, since the volume of
training was greater for the hypertrophic regime, the stronger anabolic response could be caused by the greater total volume and not the longer
TUT.
One such study by Schoenfeld et al. had 17 resistance -
trained subjects randomized into two
training groups: one had a bodybuilding - type protocol with 30 - 40 seconds of
TUT per set while the other followed a powerlifting - type protocol with 9 - 12 seconds of
TUT per set, and both groups
trained three times per week for 8 weeks.
Ask any modern
training guru and they will tell you that
training with an optimal
TUT causes powerful muscle breakdown leading to sleeve - busting muscles.
I'm not going to suggest pure eccentric
training in this discussion (it's effective, but often impractical) nor am I a fan of the «Time Under Tension» (
TUT) method where even the concentric aspect is performed slowly.