Lawless
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Recently I have been reading the excellent Deadlift Dynatemite book by Pavel & Andy Bolton & I was blown away with how packed the book is with information to take someone who hasn't stepped foot into a TRUE strength training gym before & give them everything they need to answer all those questions in their mind on programme design, selection of exercises, avoiding injury, stretching, diet, & how to keep improving week by week & year by year.
If anyone has read this book or seen a video of how Andy Bolton lifts you will know that he is an explosive lifter & moves heavy weights as fast as possible while still adhering to full body tension to prevent power leakage & never too fast that it sacrifices form or cause hyper extension. This makes perfect sense as you would want to finish a lift with a back breaking load as fast as possible to eliminate as much time as you can under the weight. Would you rather spend 3-4 seconds under weight that could break your back or 8-10 seconds?
Every video I have watched on someone who has cleaned & pressed the beast & above seem to employ the same technique. As soon as they clean they take the energy from the clean, redirect the force into the floor through the feet & as the energy springs back up through the body they explode with weight as fast as possible. The weight might not be moving fast but the intention is there. The weight is being grinded on because of the sheer weight! Not because they are intentionally going slow with a weight they could move faster.
Bearing this in mind as Pavel points out it would be a big mistake to take someone who has never lifted before & expect them to lift in this manner. Most people would be lifting fast at the expense of tension & probably be hyperextending . So it make sense that you should always learn a lift in a controlled manner employing the tension drills & once you have that down you start increasing the speed.
I can really see no point for anyone that has mastered or has the technique in a lift down to a good standard & knows how to employ total body tension with no leakages lift a weight purposely slow. It reminds me of all that super slow stuff that completely died out years ago. Where people were intentionally grinding on weight that your Nan could lift. All it did was make you good at producing lactic acid. Because when they went back to trying to move something heavier when they started the super slow stuff they couldn't. End of the day the only thing they achieved was they became more efficient at producing more lactic acid.
Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this on the forum. Some people swear by moving a weight intentionally slow where others move it fast under complete control with total body tension.
If anyone has read this book or seen a video of how Andy Bolton lifts you will know that he is an explosive lifter & moves heavy weights as fast as possible while still adhering to full body tension to prevent power leakage & never too fast that it sacrifices form or cause hyper extension. This makes perfect sense as you would want to finish a lift with a back breaking load as fast as possible to eliminate as much time as you can under the weight. Would you rather spend 3-4 seconds under weight that could break your back or 8-10 seconds?
Every video I have watched on someone who has cleaned & pressed the beast & above seem to employ the same technique. As soon as they clean they take the energy from the clean, redirect the force into the floor through the feet & as the energy springs back up through the body they explode with weight as fast as possible. The weight might not be moving fast but the intention is there. The weight is being grinded on because of the sheer weight! Not because they are intentionally going slow with a weight they could move faster.
Bearing this in mind as Pavel points out it would be a big mistake to take someone who has never lifted before & expect them to lift in this manner. Most people would be lifting fast at the expense of tension & probably be hyperextending . So it make sense that you should always learn a lift in a controlled manner employing the tension drills & once you have that down you start increasing the speed.
I can really see no point for anyone that has mastered or has the technique in a lift down to a good standard & knows how to employ total body tension with no leakages lift a weight purposely slow. It reminds me of all that super slow stuff that completely died out years ago. Where people were intentionally grinding on weight that your Nan could lift. All it did was make you good at producing lactic acid. Because when they went back to trying to move something heavier when they started the super slow stuff they couldn't. End of the day the only thing they achieved was they became more efficient at producing more lactic acid.
Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this on the forum. Some people swear by moving a weight intentionally slow where others move it fast under complete control with total body tension.
