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2004/07/09, 02:39 PM
I have alwayse wanted to try the 5x5 program, and i think i will in a week. I was just wondering, how fast should the bar be going up and how fast it should be going down, because i have heard with this program bar speed is important.
Thanks in advance.
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2004/07/11, 10:31 PM
Thank you very much for your reply, its alright you dont have ot look up the link for me, i think i get the general idea. Thanks again.
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2004/07/12, 05:27 PM
56...........down part should be comtrolled, you should not bounce the weight for extra" power" it should come down to your chest, pause the drive fast. IF you bounce it off your chest, its just cheating.
I bounce a lil somtimes, but i'm on a rest pause routine but its only for the last 1 or 2 reps, just to get them up.
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2004/07/15, 04:28 PM
Most trainers will tell you, 3 seconds up, 3 seconds down.. Do not do it as quick as you can becuase you arent working the muscles to there fullest potential, and you are risking injury to your muscles and joints, if you do it to fast.
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2004/07/17, 12:29 AM
jaybh1974,
I disagree with not driving the weight up quickly. Your white fiber is 20 percent larger than your red fiber. It also has a longer recovery period (white). Driving the weight up as fast as you can each rep concentrates on the white fiber. This sounds like a good shocking technique to me. Take a day of driving the weight up and bringing it down slowly and controlled. This does not mean to bounce it off your chest or lose form. This should be used to shock the muscle after developing enough to control it at a faster rate (Intermediate to advanced). You do as many reps as you can until your drive begins to slow down. Then you stop the set when you slow down instead of completing total exhaustion. :dumbbell: Come back to the gym a week later for that body part and see how you do :dumbbell:. I've used this many times and have gone up in weight when my chest has needed a shock. This is not something that should be done at every training session, but only as a method of shocking IMO. Hope this clarifies the potential of "driving" the weight quickly. :big_smile:
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Motivation is nothing more than being proactive.
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2004/07/18, 01:07 PM
also jay, the point of a 5x5 is to train for strength......for strength you need speed. IF he was wanting to body build then yes 3 secs down 3 secs up......however IOtake it froma 5x5 he's not. Bodybuilding and strength training are completly different.
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.......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records!
......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened
......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
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2004/07/19, 03:21 PM
White is fast and red is slow.
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Motivation is nothing more than being proactive.
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