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I was actually reading up on this the other day;
Negative simply means the exercise is reversed. For example, if you are doing a bench press exercise, once you have failed and can no longer push the bar up, you must then try and stop it from coming down.
Once you have reached failure, your partner will help your perform the positive (push or pull) part of the motion, taking most of the load and you will perform the negative part of the rep for a time of 5 seconds. The aim of this is to try and hold the weight at its most contracted phase. This is where we tear down the muscle, which leads to growth.
Negative strength is normally around 30%-40% stronger than positive strength, in which case we can use the extra reps to further breakdown muscle tissue and go even further beyond positive failure. Look to achieve an extra 4-5 reps after failure.
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