I’ve tried it and I found pros and cons. It was great muscle stimulus with hypertrophy you could feel all throughout the muscle group. I stopped because you need a training partner to do it effectively, and it just felt like I wasn’t working enough for all that I ate. It took a bit to shed the extra pounds I gained. I still like it as a finisher for an isolation exercise though.
Hmmm... Alright. What kind of training do you do now?
I'm kinda limited because I've got an old Marcy MWM980 machine, a pair of 30lb. DB's, and a 35lb. KB. Oh, and a ez bar that's got 80lbs worth of weights.
So yeah, no bars or squat rack or anything... I really wish I had that setup. Hell, $700 and I could. Problem is space.
I have a barbell and squat rack with 405 lbs for the bar. I mix it up between low and high rep and I experiment with new programs all the time. I’ve been incorporating more calisthenics from that bioneer dude and some Movnat stuff to stay spry in my 40’s.
Yeah Branch Warren's school of thought was, GO HEAVY and use other muscles to spot yourself within reason. Obviously that doesn't really work with exercises like the Stiff-legged deadlift for example, but for most upper body work, I have found it EXTREMELY effective, even though it makes you look like you're using too much weight if you lift in a gym.
I think that's the whole idea, because you have parts of the Range of Motion of an exercise where you are stronger, and parts where you are weaker. Most people limit the weight to what the weaker part of the ROM dictates, whereas Branch Warren went the opposite: use as heavy as the strongest part of the ROM allows you, and figure a way to do the whole ROM anyway. Brilliant.
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I'm kinda limited because I've got an old Marcy MWM980 machine, a pair of 30lb. DB's, and a 35lb. KB. Oh, and a ez bar that's got 80lbs worth of weights.
So yeah, no bars or squat rack or anything... I really wish I had that setup. Hell, $700 and I could. Problem is space.
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Yesterday I hit myself hard, doing slower reps and doing heavy enough weight where I'm failing at about the 6-10 range. Heavier weight, 3 sets.
I feel great today. I'm in pain, but it's the best kind of pain I've had in awhile.
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I think that's the whole idea, because you have parts of the Range of Motion of an exercise where you are stronger, and parts where you are weaker. Most people limit the weight to what the weaker part of the ROM dictates, whereas Branch Warren went the opposite: use as heavy as the strongest part of the ROM allows you, and figure a way to do the whole ROM anyway. Brilliant.
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