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Old 01-27-2008, 02:40 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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^^^^Well, when you are knew to an excercise you can almost treat it like you are a beginner in a way. I.E. after learning and practicing it, just getting stronger at it IS getting faster. So starting off an exercise "DE" is kinda needless.

My basic recommendation for learning form is to stick to multiple sets of around 3 with light weight so that you don't become fatigued and work too close to failure (for a while). This way everything is centered on quality and you don't inhibit your body's learning the new motor skills, etc, by the build up of fatigue products OR working in a fatigued state that doesn't allow perfect form.

After good techique has been dialed in I like to at least have a period of higher reps (I like at least 6+) with 2 or 5 sets where you add reps before weight. This allows a practice period so that you can take a little advantage of the the effect of volume on learning. During all of this period I don't like to be super worried about loading the movement aggresively (hence the adding of reps/sets before weight).

Then after the right period of time (right for you) if you were to drop the weight and see how explosive you can get you should notice a big improvement in that. And then you can begin programming the excercise appropriately.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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