Just started reading the naked warrior by pavel and he recommends using the grease the groove technique… anyone used this to good or bad effect…
really just wondering how effected this is and the pros and cons
yep it works.
gotta make sure you don’t really fatigue yourself with other stuff for it to work really well. definitely works though, give it a shot.
works better with 5 reps than with lower for me (i tried using doubles on the back squat, wasn’t really impressive)
im considering using it with captains of crush since i can carry them around with me wherever… anyone tried this?
It works. Just make sure that you’re leaving a lot in the tank for every individual set. Pavel recommends doing 1/2 (or less) the reps you could do if you were maxing out. If you try to do more than that, you are likely to overtrain and injure yourself. Every week or two, take a day off and test your max to determine how many reps/set you should be doing. If you can do 12 reps (6/set), you should move up to a more difficult gripper.
Which COC gripper are you planning on doing it with and how many reps can you currently do?
People progress on this routine doing chins,dips.
It works better on beginners IMO than on advanced lifters.
i think CoC would be one of the best things you could do it with. partly because of the consistency, and partly because its not really going to create much CNS fatigue at all…
follow chaseT’s suggestion for protocol
If you are basing your training on high frequency practice-“strength is a skill”- the results you achieve may be lost quickly if you adopt a more moderate regime.
Siff has for example pointed out that the strength gains due to increase in neural efficiency will not be as enduring as those resulting from structural(muscle)changes.
I think it was Clarence Bass who reported that his pull up numbers fell away quite quickly when his frequency of practice was curtailed and I have read similar reports although I have no direct experience myself.
It may be pleasing to knock out 20 plus chins but I suppose everyone has to decide if they want to practise chinning 5 times a day to achieve it.
[quote]peterm533 wrote:
If you are basing your training on high frequency practice-“strength is a skill”- the results you achieve may be lost quickly if you adopt a more moderate regime.
Siff has for example pointed out that the strength gains due to increase in neural efficiency will not be as enduring as those resulting from structural(muscle)changes.
I think it was Clarence Bass who reported that his pull up numbers fell away quite quickly when his frequency of practice was curtailed and I have read similar reports although I have no direct experience myself.
It may be pleasing to knock out 20 plus chins but I suppose everyone has to decide if they want to practise chinning 5 times a day to achieve it.
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I have couple of questions. Isnt strength training in general consentrated in the neural efficiency? And isnt with this peaked neural efficiency easy to build more muscle if longer lasting results are wanted?
My information is purely second hand so I stand to be corrected by any exercise physiologists here.
In simple terms I understand that strength is determined by a combination of muscle size and the ability to recruit motor units.
You can improve neural efficiency but ultimately size will determine potential strength.
I believe Siff’s point was simply that neural efficiency is in the nature of skill training and therefore unless practised would be lost quicker than structural changes in the muscle due to hypertrophy.
[quote]Regular Gonzalez wrote:
Which COC gripper are you planning on doing it with and how many reps can you currently do?[/quote]
well i have pretty weak grip strength… right now i can prolly bust out 8 reps with a number 1… 15 ish with the trainer and am about a milimeter away from closing the number 2
so i wasn’t sure whether i should be doing GTG with the number 1 at about 3 to 4 reps… or with the trainer at about 7-8 reps
If your goal is to close the number 2 and beyond you should probably go with the number 1 over the trainer.
The trainer only has 100 lb of resistance, compared with 195 lb for the number two. Doing GTG with the trainer would simply increase your strength endurance at that relatively low resistance level.
This would make about as much sense as training for a 195kg bench by increasing the number of reps you can do with 100kg.
You should probably also include some extensor work for balance.
thanks alot… i have some of those extensors as well