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Originally Posted by Si
I guess you guys don't know, I don't remember much of it either myself (and can't find it again).
It was like a type of limit training, you take a load to the muscle you want to work, hold it for 10 seconds, then drop it.
It was based on the idea, that you can lower more weight from a height, than you can actually lift. (That might strike a chord with some people.)
Instead of lifting weights, you drop them. Was the basic premise.
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I thought you were talking about going down, holding it for 10 seconds and pushing back up with power. Power lifters train like that i believe as part of anaerobic training/conditioning. I don't know much about power lifting, but i've been around plenty of competitive power lifters and watched them train.
If you are talking about stuff like 2 seconds down and 6 seconds up or whatever, its nothing new and has been around since the 70s. Just another way of doing the same thing, under the false belief that it is somehow going to give better gains.
Weight lifting is exactly like diet. Ask 1000 people "how do i lose 25 pounds" and you get 1000 different answers. 90% of them are not going to be helpful or useful or even remotely close to true/accurate. But strangely, people who base their careers around lowering their body fat all do the same things. There is reality - which is what everyone who competes is doing and there are the 1000 "different ways of doing it".
Broadly speaking, you have to understand ones goals to understand why they are training how they are and detail the training itself. "I read about this thing" isn't helpful in discerning what you are talking about. There is a huge difference in training for power, training for strength, training for optimal muscle gains or sports specific training and so on...