Speed
I went to the gym today and watched other people lift for a while before I started.
Most people have terrible form. It's easy to have terrible form with machines because so much of the work is done for you. I was watching these people hoist weights and pump out eight reps in twelve seconds and it made me wonder why they were wasting so much of that time. The only moment they were getting any work was in the tiny bit of time it took them to lift the weight.
I decided to try a set where instead of lifting weights I tried to control them. I get bored lifting, so it wasn't a bad thing to try. Anything to break up the monotony.
As it turned out, it worked really well. Each rep took about ten seconds, and it was a very different feeling to control the weight at all times. There was never any slack, if that makes any sense. So I'd do my ten reps, but it took over a minute and a half. It was substantially harder, even with much lighter weights (25% lighter than usual).
If you lift and get bored you might try this out. It's a definite change of pace, and I'm more tired than usual.
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