pros form lol

[ironmanlives79]

wow how come whenever i watch a pro train outside of do mike mentzer or dorian yates they have the worst training form ever..they use excess momentum and are just asking for injury... who here uses a good 4 sec negative with 2 sec pos and hold at the peak. anyone?

 

[Bryan Haycock]

I don't think many pros achieved their results from strict form.

Form is overreated if mass is your goal. I understand what you are saying about injury but most "acute" injuries are related to how prepared the lifter is to lift (pec tears often happen before the 1st work set). And "chronic" injuries are just that, chronic. Chronic injuries are caused by an imbalance of inflammation and resolution or recovery.

If you are talking about power lifting or Olympic lifting it is a completely different story as the form you use will effect the judges decisions about wether you completed a "good lift" or not, and form is critical as a skill in olympic lifting allowing the lifter to manipulate far more weight than they can lift or "muscle up". Olympic lifting is ALL about momentum.

 

[Ra Ether]

wow how come whenever i watch a pro train outside of do mike mentzer or dorian yates they have the worst training form ever..they use excess momentum and are just asking for injury... who here uses a good 4 sec negative with 2 sec pos and hold at the peak. anyone?

what does this mean? explain please

 

[Stretch]

well, let's say he was referring to a bench press


4 sec negative means, you lower the weight from it's starting position (arms fully extended) to your chest in 4 seconds. 4 sec. neg. movement.


The rest should be self explanatory from here.

 

[Bryan Haycock]

what does this mean? explain please

Few experienced lifters use slow cadences. An overly slow cadence can severely restrict the amount of weight you can use. In addition, there is research indicating that slow cadences aren't a necessary part of an effective set, at least as far as hypertorphy is concerned.

Slow cadences are very useful when working around an injury and/or when warming up. They can also be useful with lighter weight loads when you want to increase time-under-tension without necessarily doing more reps.