[quote]dankid wrote:
Go check out IRONRADIO’s episode from this week on itunes. This was their topic and you can get the opinions of some very knowledgeable people.[/quote]
Hey Nice to know someone heard that podcast! It was a great discussion on the topic with Chris, Phil, Rob, Charles and myself. Alas with many of these topics the inevitable conclusion is usually one of ‘it depends’! Essentially we all came to the consensus there is a place for both slow and fast reps, with slow controlled reps for learning the motor pattern and faster more explosive reps to gain more muscular recruitment and performance/growth potential.
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
Since this is a useless thread, I feel better about desecrating it a bit more.
I moved to France (could be permanent) and live around 40 kms from Paris. Haven’t found a worthwhile gym yet though… [/quote] The good gym’s are all in eastern Europe, I guess. We don’t get many in Germany either.
Well, have fun with the French girls then… [quote]
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
…AND speak with tremendous confidence after getting everything utterly wrong. Ha, indeed. Not a rare occurrence either.
BTW C_C say hello to a fellow european (as of last week)
Hello initiate.
What brought you into the fold? You get more blondes with blue eyes and fake tits in the U.S., and I don’t think Europe has anything else to offer, really
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Like everyone has been saying, a mixture of both is probably optimal. Personally I have benefited from both. As for your lagging body parts - I have found that doing slow, heavy (3-5 RM) DB concentration curls blow-up my arms. Try doing the first set with a weight that you can do 8 reps with, short rest, then add 5 pounds and do as many as possible, rest, stick with the same weight and do a few more.
Try a 3 seconds up, 1 sec pause, 3 seconds down, no pause on the bottom tempo. As far as progression goes, as soon as you can do 8 reps on your second set, increase the weight.
Something to try for lats is to do whatever back program you are doing, but add a bunch (50 or so depending on your strenth) push-ups at the end of your workout. Do these as fast as you can and your lats will notice.
personal experience:
lifted slow for a period of time to make the weights i was using feel heavier, (crap gym, no challenging weights). no noticable benefit.
moved to a proper gym. lifted as fast as possible (which was still slow as the weight now being used was actually challenging) and actually started getting results.
