CT's Modern Strength

I was just re-reading through one of his awesome, free “Modern Strength” web issues, and I had a question concerning a statement made about hypertrophy. While on the subject of muscle-protein degradation, he noted that for hypertrophy, there must be an optimal level of degradation (obviously). While that is very easy to understand, I am just curious how to quantify the paramaters he gave. He cited that, for most people, the highest volume they can sustain without overtraining, (thus leading to optimal degradation) equates to a performance drop-off of 6-10%, meaning that your strength will decrease by 6-10% during the workout. Now, my main question is how do we exactly gauge that? Do we use weight, time (rest periods or time per set with a set weight) or anything else?

I just thought that that was a very interesting piece of information, and was curious how to implement it correctly.

I know CT is a busy guy, so if anyone else knows anything about this your help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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the best in my opinion would be bar speed…but you need a pretty good spoter to observe…or a tendo unit(expensive)…

then you can go on to reps…say your doing 5 reps…when you can no longer complete maybe 4 thats your drop off…

or you can just substract 6% from the bar(+ your bodyweight factor for the lift) and keep doing say 3ples till you can get 3 reps

hope that helps

So what would a good time per rep be to use the bar speed measuring method? I know there is much discrepancy about TUT so would it not really matter, as long as you pick a certain time and set that as your point on which to measure?

Thanks for the reply,

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well since those methods are more power oriented you would like to move the bar as fast as posible…

say 1 sec or less on the concentric part of the bench…

once you droped to say 1.06 sec you would stop
something like that…charles staley also recomends stoping at 6%…as does db hammer and jay schoreder

but its kind of har mesuring bar speed just by feel

Thanks for the help.

Does anyone else have any insight on this?