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Old 12-04-2008, 07:42 PM   #2416
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Originally Posted by millerizer View Post
Ive even read articles for testing 1RM where you load 110% or so and just lift off and hold the bar prior to doing your max effort. So I would assume.. lifting 90% of your max once could be beneficial if you were doing your working sets at about 80%....

Havent really tried it though since it would take extra work//amount of time to work up to the final warm up set which actually exceeds the weight of the working set...


the holding techinque sounds like golgi tendon threshold training, similar to how powerlifters do lockouts to prevent their triceps giving out as a safety precaution at the top of a bench press
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