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Slow Lifting Doesn’t Cut It |
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Written by Superhuman
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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Ultraslow training involves lifting weights at very slow velocities until the muscles fail. Muscle growth requires ...
the right combination of muscle tension, anabolic hormones, calories, amino acids and rest. Remove even one of these ingredients and muscles won’t grow as well as they should. Constant muscle tension is a prominent element in slow-velocity training, so on the surface this technique looks ideal. Slow training is extremely fatiguing and painful. Slow reps decrease muscle blood flow and prevent flushing of muscle acids and waste products, which reduce muscle tension and training gains. Researchers from the University of Connecticut concluded that very slow velocity training doesn’t trigger the necessary levels of force, power or volume to optimize muscle strength. Slow training may be a good variation, but shouldn’t be your primary method of training. (Journal Strength Conditioning Research, 20:760-766, 2006)
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