Negative failure >>> Positive failure

"HIT Fanatic" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

I've recently taken to taking my sets to negative failure rather than
positive failure. I do this by doing a normal set as a sort of
"pre-exhaust" and then on the last rep, I will try to hold the bar as long
as possible in a static position where eventually I am forced to lower the
bar.

After doing deadlifts like this for a few weeks, my grip strength has
increased tremendously. I'm also making a lot more progress rather than
getting stuck in plateaus.

You have discovered a revolutionary new method of training. Soon, your
continued progress will exceed human ability and you will evolve into a yet
unspecified species, able to lift the entire universe...once.

David

HIT Fanatic said:

I've recently taken to taking my sets to negative failure rather than
positive failure. I do this by doing a normal set as a sort of
"pre-exhaust" and then on the last rep, I will try to hold the bar as long
as possible in a static position where eventually I am forced to lower the
bar.

That's actually static failure, not negative failure.

If you did that repeatedly, until you couldn't slow the downward drop of the
bar, that would be negative failure.

Quoted message said:

After doing deadlifts like this for a few weeks, my grip strength has
increased tremendously. I'm also making a lot more progress rather than
getting stuck in plateaus.

Congratulations, that's excellent.

From what I read, this is a good method to use periodically. But very
dangerous when applied to squats and dead lifts.

Bob