Slow negatives

[rick_hfh]

I live about 45 minutes away from an oldschool bodybuilder Ralph Kroger. He was on the cover of 9 different magazines back ing his day. He was Mr. America in 1975. He is a believer in very slow negatives. He says that is the key to building muscle. My question is have any of you experimented with time under tension or really slow negatives?

 

[thezan]

i love negatives, especially at the end of my arm workout with preachers
Have a spot with you--get him to help lift the weight up when can no longer--then squeeze out some busting negatives, i usually go 5 seconds down

 

[bignate73]

negatives are the key to DC training. read his rationale on them and you'll see it makes sense to increase your TUT (negativewise) if your goal is hypertrophy.

 

[alex2678]

I've experimented with some negative only training in the past. (Just out of curiosity from an old Ironman article) Great strength increases. If you apply progressive resistance to negatives, increasing the weight and slowly slowing the speed down after each workout, you'll see a translation into an overall increases in both concentric and eccentric strength.

 

[rick_hfh]

I usually use negatives on lots of my sets. Ive done a lot of research on time under tension theories. It was very popular in the 70's. A lot of the material suggest for optimal gains 45 seconds to over a minute is suggested. I have tried doing 2-5 seconds up and 5-15 seconds down,and any combo inbetween, at total failure around a min. I have used them striclty in my bicep lifts only for about the last month. I have gotten stronger but have not noticed any size differance, but size doesnt come over night.

I dont't want to read about it I have spent plenty of time reading abou it already. Have any of you guys tried it?