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A few months ago I was watching videos of Lyle McDonald's where he was talking crap about Mike Israeltal (sp?) not training hard and McDonald mentioned that when a set is taken to true failure the duration of the last rep is going to be very slow
It's something I had never thought about but it makes all the sense in the world. It takes more energy/strength to move the same weight at a faster speed, so as fatigue builds during a set, the reps should get slower as a matter of necessity, and as one approaches failure, the speed one could move the weight slows way down
Although I've mostly avoided failure-training for the past decade, I've been trying to hit failure the past few days, realizing that I have to keep going no matter how much it hurts as long the rep is fast... Keep going even when the rep gets slow... Just ppuuuuuussssssshhhhhhh those last couple reps like molasses...
It's been kind of fun
It's something I had never thought about but it makes all the sense in the world. It takes more energy/strength to move the same weight at a faster speed, so as fatigue builds during a set, the reps should get slower as a matter of necessity, and as one approaches failure, the speed one could move the weight slows way down
Although I've mostly avoided failure-training for the past decade, I've been trying to hit failure the past few days, realizing that I have to keep going no matter how much it hurts as long the rep is fast... Keep going even when the rep gets slow... Just ppuuuuuussssssshhhhhhh those last couple reps like molasses...
It's been kind of fun