The one thing you won't hear so often about is that
slower rep speed works a lot better for maximizing brachialis recruitment than fast tempo.
Not exact matches
Slowing down the
rep speed will help you focus on isolating the lats.
The first group had to perform «
slow speed»
reps by lifting the weight in one second and lower it in three seconds.
And although things are not as black and white as this «rule» make them appear, it's true that many of the guys who also incorporate
slow tempo lifting tend to add more mass than those who strictly use fast lifting
speeds and perform their every
rep in an explosive manner.
So, in order to achieve an ideal
rep speed to induce muscle growth you should lift faster and more explosively on the concentric phase, and use a
slower controlled
speed on the eccentric one.
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.
«The best
rep speed for muscle and strength gain is to perform the given exercise in a
slow, controlled manner, taking at least 1 second to lift and 2 seconds to lower the weight».
For example, one week you can concentrate on
slower reps and isolation moves, and in the next week you can focus on more
speed reps and multijoint exercises.
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.
As for exercise selection we suggest that, to achieve best results, you choose more multijoint exercises for the
speed reps and more isolation - type movements for the
slow reps.. In terms of incorporating
rep speed into your overall plan, you can spend weeks at a time concentrating on one particular
speed before changing your pace.
Lifting tempo is the technical term for how fast (or
slow) you lift and lower the weights during a
rep. Lifting tempo has a couple of other aliases, lifting
speed and
rep speed to name two
The only down side is it takes a considerable amount of time to complete 500 press ups when they are done in sets of 10 to 20
reps at the
slow speed required.
Ranging from
slower music for SMR and the warm - up, to a rise in tempo for a bit of cardio, to a strong beat for strength to help keep me on track and focused on my
speed of movement and
rep tracking, and back to a
slow tempo for the cool - down.
Increase the intensity in this situation by
slowing down the
rep speed or adding a pause at the end of the eccentric portion of the movement.
He stated «Bodybuilders in order to achieve the tremendous musculature that they possess have to do
slow movements (
reps), fast movements (
speed reps), light and heavy poundage and everything in - between, thereby increasing the mechanisms of the muscle structure.»
Slow down
rep speed to superslow levels, that is, a 10 - second positive followed by a 4 - second negative.
Due to the short lasting nature of
speed adaptations, we must not concern ourselves with
slow tempo training.8 Incorporate power training into your annual training plan and be sure to train with quick concentric
rep speeds when you are not in a power phase.
Our solution to this problem was to film without music and then add the music back to the video scoring the music to the movement and exercise as best as can be done until the
rep speed drastically
slows down because of fatigue.You will notice how the music ebbs and flows with the intensity of the exercise and even the breaks between exercises have their own special music that is much calmer in nature.
When you lift heavy weights to failure your
rep speed will
slow down as you approach failure and is also affected by the length of your limbs making it impossible for everyone to lift at a consentient
speed.
Another minor surprise: You could really feel the drag from the regenerative brakes after you stopped accelerating at lower
speeds — as the Tesla
rep remarked, you don't even need to hit the brakes to stop if you're going
slow enough.