Unfortunately the professor is more right than wrong. By focusing in slow eccentrics your technique will improve and strength will increase with lower weights. The fact they recognize here they didn’t stick to it more than a couple weeks it shows they are not the best place to get your information from.
When you say "strength will increase with lower weights", does that mean slow eccentrics aren't so great if you're lifting heavy weights? I'm asking for my pull up routine, which for me is extremely heavy.
@@Durzo1259 “low weights” is an ambiguous term. A better way to define this is by the speed of the concentric phase in milliseconds and/or the number of repetitions till muscle failure (RM). Low weights generally means using the weight you use to achieve 8-12 (R)epetitions (M)aximum. Heavy regularly means anything bellow 6 RM. depending on how slow your eccentric is, you will find that you can’t do the same number of repetitions with the same weight. Suppose you can do 10 pull ups, try doing more than two reps with 30 seconds eccentrics and you’ll notice what I mean. My advice for pull ups is If your goal is hypertrophy do lengthened partials (look it up) and accessory rows. If your objective is strength, focus on chests to bar eccentrics and the speed of the concentric. When you are approaching failure the time it takes to complete a rep increases, this is the nervous system failure. Studies show when your speed decreases by 25% you are done, rest. Remember force is mass times acceleration. So in order to train your nervous system to recruit more muscle fibers to create more force, you have to increase the number of reps you can perform at the same speed. So take away: full range of motion eccentrics (bar to chest in your pull ups example, is a technique floss), lengthened partials (best hypertrophy training), speed concentric still 25% decrease in speed (best strength training). Look it up.
Okay I need answers. When I first figured out about eccentric training it’s all I did for years (up until now so it’s been 5+ years easily. So my question is, can you become too used to doing eccentrics? All I can do now is focus on the eccentric, I can explode up fast in movements but if I even try doing any type of speed work it doesn’t work for me, I can’t do it at all seriously
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Unfortunately the professor is more right than wrong. By focusing in slow eccentrics your technique will improve and strength will increase with lower weights. The fact they recognize here they didn’t stick to it more than a couple weeks it shows they are not the best place to get your information from.
When you say "strength will increase with lower weights", does that mean slow eccentrics aren't so great if you're lifting heavy weights? I'm asking for my pull up routine, which for me is extremely heavy.
@@Durzo1259 “low weights” is an ambiguous term. A better way to define this is by the speed of the concentric phase in milliseconds and/or the number of repetitions till muscle failure (RM). Low weights generally means using the weight you use to achieve 8-12 (R)epetitions (M)aximum. Heavy regularly means anything bellow 6 RM. depending on how slow your eccentric is, you will find that you can’t do the same number of repetitions with the same weight. Suppose you can do 10 pull ups, try doing more than two reps with 30 seconds eccentrics and you’ll notice what I mean. My advice for pull ups is If your goal is hypertrophy do lengthened partials (look it up) and accessory rows. If your objective is strength, focus on chests to bar eccentrics and the speed of the concentric. When you are approaching failure the time it takes to complete a rep increases, this is the nervous system failure. Studies show when your speed decreases by 25% you are done, rest. Remember force is mass times acceleration. So in order to train your nervous system to recruit more muscle fibers to create more force, you have to increase the number of reps you can perform at the same speed. So take away: full range of motion eccentrics (bar to chest in your pull ups example, is a technique floss), lengthened partials (best hypertrophy training), speed concentric still 25% decrease in speed (best strength training). Look it up.
@@Durzo1259I believe he is saying you don't need as heavy of weights to get the same results
But should you control the Concentric as well??
I’m saying like 1.5sec concentric and a 3sec eccentric
Okay I need answers. When I first figured out about eccentric training it’s all I did for years (up until now so it’s been 5+ years easily. So my question is, can you become too used to doing eccentrics? All I can do now is focus on the eccentric, I can explode up fast in movements but if I even try doing any type of speed work it doesn’t work for me, I can’t do it at all seriously
When doing the eccentric, do you fight it with squeezing the muscle? Thx