Static and negatives..

[D Animal]

How would you perform these? And if you do negatives do you do them for ever set every time you train or what?

[Thor]

Negatives done right are pretty intense and therefore should not be done all the time. Best way to do them is with a training partner and use a weight that is very heavy, maybe above max. Lower the weight over the course of 5 - 10 seconds and have the spotter help with the raising of the weight.

[Stonecold54]

Re: Static and negatives..

Originally posted by D Animal
How would you perform these? And if you do negatives do you do them for ever set every time you train or what?

they are very helpful in overcoming plateaus. but becareful as they are a higher intensity than positive only training so you don't want to use them all the time or you will put your body in a state of overtraining rather quickly. some of my favorite are weighted pullup holds at the top of the movement. I do two of these for 30 seconds each. also calf raises are good as well for statics. if you are doing negatives make sure you have a few spotters because you should be able to lower 20-45% more weight than you can positively lift so the injury possibility is greater.

[D Animal]

Damn, that scares me now lol

[Stonecold54]

Originally posted by INTIMID8OR3
Negatives.are done by you pulling the weight up on the upward part and your partner pulling it down on the downward part while you try to hold it ..Its more of an exercise of you pulling against your partner on the downward motion..Thats why it's called a negative...


P.S I prefer drop sets....

you can also do pure negative sets whereas the partners lift the positive portion of the movement and then trasfer the weight to the person doing the negative. then the weight is lowered slowly to the bottom position and then repeated. HOWEVER do NOT GO TO NEGATIVE FAILURE, injury can result from this because your muscle will be very tired and there is a chance you could have a sudden drop that could hurt you. Referring to the method mentionded by INTIM. I don't like that because you don't know how much pressure the partner is putting on the weight and it will vary from workout to workout making it hard to track accuratley your progress.

[Stonecold54]

Originally posted by INTIMID8OR3
I didnt say I liked the exercise I was just telling him the proper way to do the exercise .....;)

I know I was just letting him know that a partner assisted push for a negative isn't as accurate for record keeping than a machine negative. :D

[Stonecold54]

Originally posted by INTIMID8OR3

that is sweet me need more smilies to choose from for this board. LOL