Here’s a great shot of young Arnold meeting his bodybuilding idol and movie Hercules Reg Park. As you can see, Arnold was proudly sponsored by Wienerschnitzel.
Arnold isn’t even 20 years old in that photo, but he already had plenty of size and bodybuilding proportion, which his training style had a lot to do with…
We’ve mentioned that Arnold almost never used a slow rep cadence in the gym—his reps were rapid-fire on most exercises, a.k.a. Speed Sets…
One benefit to those 1.5-second reps is that the turnaround, where you move from the negative stroke to the positive, is more abrupt.
That quick reversal of movement at the stretch, as in the cable row photo above, triggers the myotatic reflex, an emergency response from the nervous system that engages more fast-twitch fibers to prevent possible injury.
For more on Speed Sets and how to implement them in your workouts—you should not always use them—see Old Man, Young Muscle.
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