workout intensity?

[Lavallee20]

To go up in your weights, i would recommend changing the timing of your exercise. For example, on benchpress (this is just an example, any exercise is pretty much the same), move the weight down slower, you can even pause at the bottom of the movement if you feel the need to and then push back up normally.

This will definitely demand more out of your muscle fibers and enable your slow-twitch fibers to be more involved. On the long run, you should start to lift more. Also as suggested by others, 5X5 programs are good, even though i feel you hit a wall after a while on them, as with any other programs.

If you need any advice PM me, dont hesitate, i did a few bodybuilding competitions and hopefully can help you as you helped me on cardrunners lol!

[Thremp]

Can we stop using intensity as some sort of catch all for "trying really hard"? It makes me want to gouge my eyes out with rusty nails.

ActionJeff,

You're reading the SuperSystem of BB books. 1983 wants it ideas back.

[shemp]

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Can we stop using intensity as some sort of catch all for "trying really hard"? It makes me want to gouge my eyes out with rusty nails.

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It seems to me that "intensity" is used with different senses -- the connotation different if the context is HIIT or % of 1RM (to give two examples).

[Thremp]

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Can we stop using intensity as some sort of catch all for "trying really hard"? It makes me want to gouge my eyes out with rusty nails.

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It seems to me that "intensity" is used with different senses -- the connotation different if the context is HIIT or % of 1RM (to give two examples).

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I just find people using it as an explanation for the "I don't feel like a work hard enough" thing totally unacceptable. Or that like straining makes your results better. Or some sort of weird bastardization of failure.