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Originally Posted by millerizer
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...
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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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