Here’s a quote from former bodybuilder and physique coach Scott Abel, who has been in the industry for more than 30 years…
Negatives [the slow lowering of resistance] tend to recruit fewer fibers but overload them more completely, which risks the wrong kind of damage. Training too heavy too often and too eccentrically takes muscles past the point of constructive and productive adaptive response and takes them instead well into the overtraining zone.
That’s the very reason you don’t want to do too many sets with a slow lowering phase. Too much damage risks recovery draining and overtraining.
It’s why the OMYM workout has about half the sets in Speed style, a 1/1 cadence, to de-emphasize the negative stroke…
That results in less damage to preserve your recovery energy for more growth—rather than repair—after the workout.
OMYM is your efficient fast-mass blueprint: Learn how to accelerate your mass gains with the STX method, Speed Sets, and complete ideal-exercise-based training. The 35-minute workouts also include the best stretch and contracted add-on moves. Get Old Man, Young Muscle.
And you still get The Muscle-On, Belly-Gone “Diet” ebook FREE for a limited time when you add Old Man, Young Muscle to your mass-building library. Go HERE.
—Steve Holman
Former Editor in Chief, Iron Man Magazine
www.X-Rep.com
Recommended
Build MASS with bodyweight training
One way you’re guaranteed to pack on stacks of muscle is through a process called muscle protein synthesis (MPS), which more than doubles 24 hours after an intense workout…
Until recently, MPS was only elevated when trainees would lift 70-90% of their one-rep max…
That’s not only dangerous for your joints, but it also sets you up for high injury risk every time you exercise…
It used to be believed that training with your own bodyweight couldn’t get you the same results as training with your 70-90% one rep max… Until NOW.