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louden_swain
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A good techinique to use. . . .but they attack the muscle fibers. I am unsure if they improve strength.
mrzap
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It's evil is what it is...
You load up the bar with like as many 5 or 10lb plates you want.
Do like 12 reps or whatever. Then you have two buddies on each side of the bar that remove a plate from each respective side and you pump out another 12 or whatever and this is repeated until you are left with just the bar. At that point u can barely lift the bar
Did those in HS. Always funny when someone would walk in just as I was doing the bar and struggling
I have no idea if it improves strength, but it sure triggers lactic acid
You load up the bar with like as many 5 or 10lb plates you want.
Do like 12 reps or whatever. Then you have two buddies on each side of the bar that remove a plate from each respective side and you pump out another 12 or whatever and this is repeated until you are left with just the bar. At that point u can barely lift the bar
Did those in HS. Always funny when someone would walk in just as I was doing the bar and struggling
I have no idea if it improves strength, but it sure triggers lactic acid
^ i think thats called a drop set..
a burn out to me is about 60% of your max at the end of a exersise for as many reps as you can..
i used to do this all the time for every major compound movement.. then i noticed i got stronger if i did it once and a while.. so i do it about once every 2 months
a burn out to me is about 60% of your max at the end of a exersise for as many reps as you can..
i used to do this all the time for every major compound movement.. then i noticed i got stronger if i did it once and a while.. so i do it about once every 2 months
edgecrusher
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No, those are primarily for endurance and leaning out.
argent
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A drop set is indeed what was described. If you meant a drop set disregard the following paragraph. If you meant doing a shitload of reps as a last set read on:
The principle of specificity states that if you train a specific way, you will get a result specific to what the training was. So for instance, a marathon runner (focusing on cardiovascular endurance) would not see a huge amount of benefit by running 100m sprints. Conversely the sprinter would not shave many seconds of his 100m time by training like a marathoner and running 7 miles a day. To relate this to weight training, muscular strength is defined by how much you can exert in a 1RM. You can gain strength by training in the 1-10 rep range, maybe 12 reps. But if you start doing many more reps than that per set, you are no longer training for muscular strength, but muscular endurance. So it really won't make you any stronger per se to do a "burnout".
The principle of specificity states that if you train a specific way, you will get a result specific to what the training was. So for instance, a marathon runner (focusing on cardiovascular endurance) would not see a huge amount of benefit by running 100m sprints. Conversely the sprinter would not shave many seconds of his 100m time by training like a marathoner and running 7 miles a day. To relate this to weight training, muscular strength is defined by how much you can exert in a 1RM. You can gain strength by training in the 1-10 rep range, maybe 12 reps. But if you start doing many more reps than that per set, you are no longer training for muscular strength, but muscular endurance. So it really won't make you any stronger per se to do a "burnout".
FatRat
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mrzap said:
I think you are talking about Rest / Pause
I put Drop sets in the same category as a spotter giving you forced reps. Perhaps good to do sparingly on the last set of big exercises, but not to be overused. After all, what you are basically doing on both occasions is lightening the weight in order to get one or two more reps out past failure.
Drop sets are a great way to fatigue the muscle. For people who do exclusively low reps, drop sets will definitely help. Doing a drop set to get a lactic acid burn conveys some of the same benefits as doing higher rep work, namely
1) Good for joints and connective tissue
2) Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy -- increased glycogen, more mitochondria, etc. It actually facilitates sarcomere hypertrophy, the kind we're all going for.
So to get that effect, right after your last work set, just drop the weight to where you can get 12-15 reps, and pump reps until you feel a burn (not necessarily until failure).
-casualbb
1) Good for joints and connective tissue
2) Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy -- increased glycogen, more mitochondria, etc. It actually facilitates sarcomere hypertrophy, the kind we're all going for.
So to get that effect, right after your last work set, just drop the weight to where you can get 12-15 reps, and pump reps until you feel a burn (not necessarily until failure).
-casualbb
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