Anthony
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If weights in the example are the same, then a 3 sec ecc sets would have a TUT of 40 seconds, and 7 sec in the ecc also 40.
However, you’re stronger in the eccentric, so I guess with very slow eccentrics, you’re dealing with a relatively light weight, and only around 5 seconds total in the concentric. With 3 sec ecc you’d spend 10 sec in the concentric, and would experience slightly higher loading for the same TUT and weight.For that case I would theorize that 3 sec eccentrics would be slightly better.
Haven’t really tried it out, but certain exercises are easier to perform when you time your breathing with execution, mainly breathing out during eccentrics. 7 seconds is a long time to breathe out, and wondering if having taking a deep breath halfway down during the eccentric, would affect performance/stability
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I would say, drop the load, give it a 3 second eccentric, pause in the bottom. Get a full control over the rep, and only then move up in weight. When you slow down, it’s easier to focus on what your body is doing & feel the quads. Maintain your form and control the weight.
Seeing too many people dropping down, trying to catch it at the bottom, and reflexing up. The weight will control their form.
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I don’t think that a constant 2-4 rep range is ideal for progress.
When doing 20 reps for an exercise, it’s relatively easy to add 1 rep. However when doing sets of 2, adding 1 rep is going to take a considerable amount of progress.
For me personally, adding about 10kg total on a deadlift, means I could do 3 reps less. So let’s say that my goal is to DL 230kg, have a 2 rep max at 220, 5 rep max of 210 and 8 of 200. With this math, I need to be able to do 10 of 200 before I have a chance of pulling 1 230.
Keep training at 220 will definitely not have me see progress, but training at 200kg will.
An alternative would be to add fractions (those tiny 1.25kg plates) and make progress with these, but still not in the 2-4 rep range
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I haven’t seen much progress, especially in legs, until I learned to control the weight. To learn how to control the weight, I had to drop the weight and slow down the eccentrics. With the slow eccentrics, it becomes much harder to bounce the weights up, or get that reflex, which would contribute to hypertrophy as well. Not to neglect safety, it’s harder to make a booboo when slow and fully in control.
At this point I could speed up the reps, still be in control, standardize my reps, have some more control over intensity/recovery, and safely progress through my lifts.
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Interested in this as well. Living in a country where doctors make a living on selling unnecessary treatments and meds, and don’t speak English. Need to be quite specific on what I want.
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Could be brewing issues. Who know, maybe their filter broke halfway through their batch. I would first ask for the ingredients from the lab and see if that potentially explains the differences.
Even if it’s something based on MCT oil, MCT c12 tends to cause PIP, while c8 and c10 are mostly fine.
I personally swell up on grapeseed oil, but can prevent it to some extend with anti allergy meds like cetirizine or loratadine.
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I would first hear out what Janoshik has to say.
In general, when in doubt, get a 2nd opinion. Preferably not from some people on a forum, but another lab.
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Biceps I can get 2 good sets in a pull workout. Anything after it is with reduced intensity, but on occasion I would add something like 21s. My preferred weight is moderate, and keep the reps between 10-15, with a 2-3 second eccentric, full ROM. Recovery time for this volume is relatively fast, so could do an extra set at the beginning of leg day for example, and aim for 5-6 working sets weekly. From my logs, I know that I don’t really progress on something like 6 reps per set.
Triceps I prefer in the 8-15 range. Been suffering from elbow tendonitis, and have been doing some exercises where I don’t fully lockout, but focusing on getting a maximal stretch. All fully controlled eccentrics. I feel that with triceps, strength doesn’t decrease as much, so I can do multiple exercises, have a bit higher volume, and recover in time before the next training.
In the end, it’s all personal and you have to find out what works for you. Being consistent and logging will help with that.
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I can run higher doses of test without acne (and a general lack of high estrogen sides), but when adding in npp/deca at a 2.5:1 ratio (test:npp) I start breaking out on my shoulders, and can no longer manage it with proper hygiene. Last cycle was my first time using it, but after 3-4 weeks of acne, stopped using it.
In that period I noticed big strength gains, didn’t use caber/prami, and don’t want to fully give up on it yet.
Would it be worth a shot to try it again with a 1:2.5 ratio to manage acne? Or directly go to using caber/prami?
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Having something similar with HCG. With subq: PIP, redness, some minor swelling. Sometimes smooth and no issues, sometimes painful. Hygiene routine was same. One time I tried IM, and that wasn’t a happy experience either.
Solved it by not using sterile water, but bac water.
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Experienced sides are mostly a personal thing.
I didn’t notice anything on ralox, experienced a negative mood from clomid, and only noticed water retention in ankles from nolva. -
Winstrol @ 100mg ed? Hopefully that’s a typo. I don’t know about your history, but from how you wrote it, it looks like this is going to be your 2nd cycle?
Test E @ 250mg eod (875 per week) is excessive, and why going up? The 750mg/w from your previous cycle was no longer doing it for you?
If your goal is to get lean for summer, and lose roughly 7% BF (6ish kg) over the next 6 months, do you really need to jump in a cycle to get there? Even if you’d start in 3/4 weeks, you’d finish your cycle in May, and do PCT through the summer months.
If I were in your shoes, I would slightly eat below maintenance, and try to set myself up well (lean) for a clean bulk, with higher focus on training/diet and less on AAS.
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If your goal for pull day is to focus on your back, I would switch the RDL for a SLDL (or conventional DL).
Personally I like an A/B rotations, as for example I want to get stronger in both Barbell Rows, and (SL)Deadlifts, and I couldn’t implement them both in the same pull day.
For B structure, there are multiple things you can do depending on your own goals.
– I either pick the same structure, but rotate it out for a similar exercise: i.e. the John Meadows Cage Press, to a Machine press, or a bench press for a dumbell press.
– Change the focus between A and B: On leg day A I focus on quads, while on B I focus on HS.
– I change the rep range: I don’t have many options in my gym for quads, but there’s a fairly solid leg press, and I add it in both A and B. While A might be 8-10 reps, B could be 15-20 reps. This way I can get stronger in multiple rep ranges. -
I would call it a a “1 2rp” set simply for the sake of logging it, and see how doing intensifying techniques at certain moments affect my numbers on the following exercises.
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Sure, everyone is different and make sure that you find what works for each of your muscles.