Trick your muscles into growing?

**seabee** · 10-09-2004, 11:05 AM

Anyone hear about this? For all of your lifts, pick up a weight you could not possibly lift...for example: Unrack a bench that is so heavy you could not lower it/press it, or pick up dumbells you could never workout with...or unrack a squat you could never actually squat. The theory is that your body will become comfortable with the notion that you are going to work with that amount of weight well before you can actually lift it...your grip and the feel of holding the weight is supposedly a big part of getting around the mental block that you can't lift a certain amount of weight. I think you do this a few weeks, then go for a major increase in your lifts...not necessarily as much as you have been picking up/unracking (which is an obscene amount). And you make major jumps in amount lifted. I'm sure you would have to be in a bulking stage (nutritionally etc) for your body/cns to handle it.

Does this make sense?

**camarosuper6** · 10-09-2004, 11:23 AM

I see where your coming from, however I do not have a clue to if it works or not.

**Yanick** · 10-09-2004, 11:50 AM

i've heard of, for example on bench, unracking and holding 405 for a couple of second then going down and doing 315 and that it makes 315 feel likes it baby weight etc. but i've never heard of basing a whole training program around it, and i don't really think its a wise idea.

**LAM** · 10-09-2004, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by seabee

Anyone hear about this? For all of your lifts, pick up a weight you could not possibly lift...for example: Unrack a bench that is so heavy you could not lower it/press it, or pick up dumbells you could never workout with...or unrack a squat you could never actually squat. The theory is that your body will become comfortable with the notion that you are going to work with that amount of weight well before you can actually lift it...your grip and the feel of holding the weight is supposedly a big part of getting around the mental block that you can't lift a certain amount of weight. I think you do this a few weeks, then go for a major increase in your lifts...not necessarily as much as you have been picking up/unracking (which is an obscene amount). And you make major jumps in amount lifted. I'm sure you would have to be in a bulking stage (nutritionally etc) for your body/cns to handle it.

Does this make sense?

it's called a static hold. it basically increases tendon and ligament tensile strength...

**Yanick** · 10-09-2004, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by LAM

it's called a static hold. it basically increases tendon and ligament tensile strength...

would that mean you approve or disapprove of the method?

**tryintogetbig** · 10-09-2004, 12:19 PM

I'm JOHN KERRY AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGES

**LAM** · 10-09-2004, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Yanick

would that mean you approve or disapprove of the method?

I use them on every body part....

**Yanick** · 10-09-2004, 01:30 PM

Sounds interesting, i never really thought about using it to increase tendon/ligament strength. How would one go about implementing this in a routine? Set a day aside, at the end of the workout etc. Also how many sets would you do, and what intensity would you use (% of 1RM).

**LAM** · 10-09-2004, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by Yanick

Sounds interesting, i never really thought about using it to increase tendon/ligament strength. How would one go about implementing this in a routine? Set a day aside, at the end of the workout etc. Also how many sets would you do, and what intensity would you use (% of 1RM).

at the end of each body part I do one static hold (for most body parts) using about 110% of my 1RM holding for 20-30 seconds maximum...

**Yanick** · 10-09-2004, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by LAM

at the end of each body part I do one static hold (for most body parts) using about 110% of my 1RM holding for 20-30 seconds maximum...

Thanks for the info i guess i'll give it a go seeing, as how my strength seems to just shoot up in bursts i sometimes get the paranoid feeling that my connective tissue doesn't keep up (because of obvious reasons) and i will eventually injure myself.

**pumpthatiron** · 10-09-2004, 04:41 PM

just curious, how do u do a static hold for biceps and triceps?

**Sapphire** · 10-09-2004, 04:45 PM

Hey Pump!

I love the penguin in your sig!!!

**LAM** · 10-09-2004, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by pumpthatiron

just curious, how do u do a static hold for biceps and triceps?

standing bb or ez bar curl for the biceps holding @ the 1/2 way point of the eccentric portion of the lift. and for triceps you use it on close grip bench

**pumpthatiron** · 10-09-2004, 07:59 PM

is doing a small static hold for bench before maxing out good? cuz it makes your max feel lighter?

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