Speed of negative faze of exercise?

[davidpro]

Everywhere i read one thing - speed of positive should be explosive and negative should be about 3-6 seconds. How come that every huge guy in my gym, every professional that i see in movies train in the way that their negative faze is about the same as positive, which is usually 1/0.5 seconds?
Can someone explain, why huge guys never follow slow negative? They just don't have to b/c of their genetics or slow negative is not so important?

 

[bignate73]

excellent point, id be interested in hearing some of the replys to this. looking at most people's routines on here, if there was such an emphasis on slower negatives...i doubt the volume and load would be such that is indicated in most of these workouts.

i know my negative isnt slow, its a tad longer than my positive. i may switch it up at times to accentuate the negative, but thats when my day ends early. the time under tension increase in just one exercise 3-4 sets is generally pretty taxing.

 

[Thaibox]

There's a lot of different theories on this from different schools of training.

For example, bodybuilders are going to live in the eccentric and concentric portions of the lift since they are both apt to stimulating the response they want within the fibers in complimentary ways. They work in the positive and the negative.

PLs are going to only going to walk trough eccentric land to get to work, since its simply the world next door to the one that they want to get to in order to do what they're there for.

Then there's freaks like CoolColJ that do all sorts of crazy shit


I live in a strange world where I do both approaches. Somedays I'll spend 20 seconds on the negative. But, when I'm in PL land or going for a 1rep, I have little to no concept of the word "negative".

 

[Lord_Suston]

For just plain old growth I use to do slower negatives and slower positives, this helped on size and some strength but defintely not on speed so I dropped that part of my routine.

 

[PolishHammer1977]

I am down with slow negatives. I have to cancel a set out normally when doing so. For ex. if I was doing chest and I had 4 sets of 305 layed out. I would only be able to complete 3 sets. This is assuming that I was using a slower cadence. Typically I use a 1,2,3 sometimes 4, down, and 1,2 up cadence. It has worked well for me. I started getting stronger when I started lifting slower.

 

[coolcolj]

Explosive concentric (CAT) and a slower 2-3 sec eccentric is the best way to gain mass IMO.

But I do crazy stuff sometimes as Thai Box mentioned

 

[davidpro]

thank you everyone