How long should 1 rep last

[ThePolishHammer]

How long should one rep last(if your trying to stimulate growth)? how much time should be spent moving the weight up, and how much should be spent lowering it?

 

[gettinlarger]

Negatives are essential. Looooong ones.

 

[Deepsquat]

for the last few month I have been doing 4 seconds up and 4 seconds down...the pump you will get is unbelievable!..But you have to check your ego at the door, as you will have to use weights that are 30% lioghter...I do 4-8 reps per set...that means at a minimum my set will last 32 seconds....
BTW if you try this technique ..you need to dramatically reduce the ## of sets you do ...or you will overtrain in a heartbeat....I am currently doing 2-4 sets per bodypart and my strength is going through the roof.

 

[bignate73]

for a bodybuilder there is no definite answer.

 

[growin']

Depends on how many reps are in the set, this combined with speed will affect Time Under Tension. When I maxe or do speed work, I guess my answer would be: Faster than it was last time

 

[clab]

Just use the guidelines of changing your time under tension roughly every three weeks and keep most sets in large muscle groups between 40-70 seconds for max. growth.

 

[onemind]

Three sec down and explode up as hard as posible.

 

[coolcolj]

concentric - as fast as possible

eccentric, whatever your comfortable with. a 4 sec eccentric is necessary to remove the stretch releflex, or just pause at the bottom