Power to the People Professional_ How to Add 100s of Pounds to Your Squat, Bench,and Deadlift with Advanced Russian Techniques ( PDFDrive )

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Prof. Zatsiorsky, a former consultant to the Soviet National Weightlifting Olympic Team, adds
that one rep max strength can only be effectively built when the kinematics of your training lift—
that is, its velocity and acceleration—match that of the max lift.
"Slow movement of the barbell trigger different changes [from fast lifting] in the central nervous
system and the muscular apparatus," reported prominent Soviet researcher and weightlifting
coach Falameyev, who stressed the importance of lifting the weights slowly if strength was the
goal. "The muscles adapt to slow, smooth movement and static tension. One must remember the
high specificity of training effect: the organism adapts its functions to the activity it is performing."
According to Basmajian
(1978) and Siff, fast versus
slow performance of an
identical movement might
even engage different muscle
groups. For example,
both slow and fast arm
curls recruit the biceps and
the brachialis, but in fast
curls the brachioradialis is
involved as well.
If you are a grinder, by
now it should be obvious
that the right groove will
only be 'greased' if you
don't explode your weights
but make the timing of
every training rep, even
with light weights, look
like an all out single.
Otherwise you would be
running a different motor
program and facilitating a
wrong pathway.
Ed Coan makes warmups and
records look the same.
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