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Originally Posted by AC
Those reps where your form is off and you are struggling... are those not the reps that force the development of strength to compensate for the hell you are putting your body through? I mean, some adaptation response may be necessary at a lower intensity, but frankly, nothing makes your body WANT to change like getting yourself near killed under a bar. I think you mentioned the fight or flight response, and when you are about to get mashed, that fight response will kick in... even if it is not pretty. Anyway, a hard fought rep is worth more than an easy rep, my friend. In any contest, nobody will remember the easy reps, the reps that went up fast, but they will remember that one pull that took ten seconds of grit and screaming to lock out. There is much more pride in being the guy that doesn't give up and doesn't turn away from that kind of fight. So don't sweat the hard stuff... that is EXACTLY why you picked up the bar to begin with ;)
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Sounds good on paper but there is always a line between favorable adapatation and unfavorable. Of course there are going to be hard fought reps. And I agree that a hard rep can be very very valuable. But there is a difference between a hard fought rep and a pile of shit where form breaks down and you risk injury. You train to be ABLE to lift heavier things. If you always traing as if you are in a competition....you will not be having many actual competitions.
And it is very important to point out that the way your body adpapts to one or two very hard reps with so so form does not compare to a volume oriented session where you have many reps done with bad form. If most of your "practice" is bad your body is not going to magically adpapt to make it "good" as you progress. Bad practice makes imperfection. With imperfection comes ineficiencies which over time add up to imbalances which then become injuries...etc, so on.
The only reason you can have an attitude about injuries not mattering so much is because they haven't cost you enough yet. I would think. BUT I do understand the spirit of what your are saying. It's just that I've learned that the mantra "hard work" can be taken the wrong way and turned into "train stupid". If it were easy, everyone would do it though
I should also point out that there is not intensity cycling in this program and even the lower intensity volume work is still pretty high and definitely in keeping with the "strength training" range. This aint no bodybuilder oriented 60 to 70 percent thing, after all.
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