[quote]Pump_Daddy wrote:
Shit, stop confusing the little brother, ok?
Listen bro, Scrawny…get to youtube and check out the “24-Hour Ghetto Workout” and you’ll see how it’s done. My advise has never been to watch videos donde by pro’s, they are like when boxers make movies, it’s very technical, beautiful…and unreal as shit. Just plain all show no go.
Now…don’t worry if your eccentric takes barely 1 second, less than that or just half a second, shit, don’t worry if the whole rep takes 1 second, just make sure the tension is high and you give your best.
The sport is called weightLIFTING, not weightLOWERING. Tempo only works if you are lifting medium-light or barely close to heavy shit. Nobody who lifts a big-ass laod can actually count tempo.
Try this: go to the dipping bars, or bench press, pick up a load where you can squeeze some good reps, you said heavy works sometimes, well, take anything 6-8 reps then, try to always keep yourself in that zone, and start lifting, rest as litle as possible…odds are by the 8th set you’ll get only 3-4 reps per set, and you rest almost 2 minutes between sets when you didn’t need much rest between them over 30 seconds or 1 minute. That’s when you should stop and move to a very high-rep exercise, 2 or 3 maximal rep sets of an exercise, compound, light weights, so each set is above 15 reps, and then move to a 100-rep set. That will get you big.
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Let’s see if this is less confusing:
1-) Do NOT worry about tempo. Just don’t let the weight fall down freely so you have to “catch it” to stop it at the bottom like putting the brakes on a ferrari going from 0 to 60 miles and don’t lift it so hard that the second half of the lifting phase is achieved thanks to the momentum the first put onto it. Tempo will not matter if you lift so heavy the tension remains maximal at all phases or parts of the rep.
2-) Never go to failure. If you can lift a load 8 times, don’t do it. Lift it 5 or 6 times and the moment your strenght seems to die down, you will stop rather than squeezing the last 2 or 3 reps. I don’t give a shit, and neither should you, that everybody says the alst 2-3 reps of a set of 8-10 reps or so are the ones that matter. You will sva eup energy to rest less and do more sets and keep the load heavy. You’ll probably grow bigger than them in a shorter time or you’ll grow to be as big as them in less time, bottom line is, I am right, and you will be too.
3-) Stick to the rep range/load you feel works the most. If 20 is good, cool, if 2 is good, cool, anything in between, cool, and just ebcause some asshole tells you you have to do 8-12 reps for size or 4-6 for size and strenght is written on stone, you shouldn’t go for it. Bottom line is, do what you know makes your muscles ache, so they are forced to adapt. You are attacking the muscle, not massaging it, and your ego and traditional advise and wisdom are shit as you will grow on your own terms, after all, it is your body, right?
That is as simple, and as good as it gets. Pump did say one thing you should pay attention to: the "24-hour Ghetto Wokout " on youtube is one of a thousand videos done by real people who do exercises on the sdtreets, on dipping bars and such and who get bigger than steroid freaks and gym addicts who do follow tempo. Guess why? becuase they do what worked for them and because you can bet your ass your msucles don’t come with an internal stopwatch to emasure tempo, at best they come with an internal clock to tell yuo when to rest, when to eat and when to go abck to the weights again…
