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Old 07-08-2009, 12:37 PM
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Who would've thought lifting very heavy weights, ie. 95%+, would lead to a strength loss
Well...who would have thought that Strength Training and Bodybuilding can lead to Strength Loss and "Body Destruction" ? Both Overtraining and Injuries are possible. If you do a 1RM everyday (or even much less often) you are going to lose strength. Do you know how many HITers don't make progress or even lose strength ? They train too hard. Some don't want to train a little bit less hard and they adopt a Super Low Frequency to recover (Heavy Duty). They then believe that they are "super hardgainers" who cannot do more than 1 set per week or even every 2 weeks.

The problem is not their recovery capacities, the problem is over-stimulation : Too High Effort (too high nervous influx). You cannot easily recover from a MAXIMUM EFFORT, it takes times which is normal, lot of time... When you train at 95% of your capacities you can easily recover (Effort is Exponential and at 95% it's still relatively low) BUT if you increase the weight too fast (like I recently did on curl) you'll progressively train above 95%, too close to 100% and you'll overtrain, lose strength. What happens above 95% is that the weight is so heavy that your speed decreases and your movement lasts much longer which implies that the Nervous System must try to maintain MAXIMUM FORCE for a much longer time which is not possible and extremley taxing.

It's not necessarily nor desirable to go beyond 95%, force is not increased, only the time to maintain the force is increased. You have to be patient and increase the load based on your real progression. If your 1RM was 100kg Day 1 and 105kg Day 50, you can add a MAXIMUM of 0.5 every 10 days if you try to go faster you'll overtrain and starts to lose strength.
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