Sentences with phrase «slower negative reps»

If you find this to be the case, just work the beginning of the rep this way and go back to doing even slower negative reps for the top of the movement until your strength increases in this position enabling you to do the real deal.

Not exact matches

At the final rep, do an isometric hold for as long as you can, then finish it off with a very slow negative rep.

Instead of doing slow reps, try doing slow negative and explosive - fast positive.

However, you don't have to do negative rep training just to get into a tempo — you can do both quick and slow reps which will both perform on the positive instead of the negative side.

However, there seems to be a threshold beyond which slowing down the lifting speed has negative influence on hypertrophy — when reps last for 10 seconds or longer, the amount of weight you can lift is dramatically reduced, resulting with an equally reduced muscle activation.

For these three exercises, focus on slow reps, maximizing the time under tension on the negative position of the movement.

Negative reps basically consist of slow execution of the eccentric part of the exercise movement.

That's when they start relying on techniques like paused reps, 1.5 reps, and slow negatives, which make light weights feel more challenging and force you to dial in your lifting technique.

Work out Day Three (low rep), 2 or 3 sets of 4 - 6 heavier pulls with slow negative eccentric pulls.

If you mean slow, controlled Muscle - Ups, then False - Grip Pull - Ups, Russian Dips and Muscle - Up Negatives once or twice a week for 3 - 5 sets of 3 - 5 reps will do.

If you do 10 slow reps (slow on both the positive and negative portions) with a relatively light weight, say 75 % of your 1RM, then do 10 superfast reps, and finish with 10 normal - speed reps, you can fatigue both the slow - and fast - twitch muscle fibers and induce growth.

During the last rep of your workout, you are going to perform the negative portion of the pull up as slow as possible.

Slow down rep speed to superslow levels, that is, a 10 - second positive followed by a 4 - second negative.