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I looked at the weight stack—it was set at a humbling 170 lbs. That meant that the other 80-105lbs I originally had on the stack was being lifted by pure momentum—or pure cheating I should say.
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This made me laugh. Talk about taking things to extremes. So many people seem to want to take one aspect of muscle growth and make it the be all and end all. Venuto is focused on tension.
If I was using a weight that was too heavy to ensure proper form I certainly wouldn't take 80 to 100 lbs off the load. First of all I would never use such an abitrary weight as to cause me to cheat to such an extreme. But usually 20 lbs or so is enough to get you in a workable range. This article is all about using sissy weights and then trying every trick in the book to make up for the suboptimal load, and in this case using super high volume with very low intensity. Hardly an effecient way to train.