bringing my thread back to life. Okay if i do negatives everyweek(i am back to my old strength)
MY max squat is 300lbs, i have trouble passing this as 275+ feels tough as nails to lift still. I was thinkin of loading 320lbs and doing eccentric from there. Now do i do a set at 265lbs then skip right over to 320? or do 2 reps at 280lbs and go over to 320lbs? and once i do the negative do i do one st or 4 sets? Is a set like one rep at 320 then unrack and repeat with the next set after 4-5 mins rest.
Im also wondering the results ppl get from doing this, is it in weeks or what, one day when your doing your reps does it all of a sudden 295lbs become way easy to lift? I only squat once a week.
Negatives should be done rarely, maybe once in six weeks at most. It’s very demanding on recovery.
They should only be done with a safe movement, like bench with the pins in the power rack. Squatting for a heavy negative is asking for trouble.
If you squat two or even three times a week, your form will improve and that will lead to a bigger squat. Your technique can always get better. Once a week is too little for both technique and and your muscles.
not trying to jump in late on this thread, but Isaw Kramer (sp?) of U Conn give a presentation 1-2 years ago regarding the use of heavy eccentrics…They were using them to simulate contact/collision forces during summer football training, so that the players would adapt to using pads and having full contact faster…
I’m sure a search of the NSCA database would find this talk/study, but I’m too lazy to do it myself
Like people have already stated, you have to do squats more than once a week. Try doing squats twice a week.
2)Negatives will do very little for experienced lifters IMHO if your volume of lifts is not the same or you have not increased the volume. When people jump into negatives some only do the same amount of sets at 1 rep (negative). Therefore, your overall volume decreases which IMHO is detrimental to strength gains. I tried negatives last year and they did absolutely nothing for me except maintain my current strength levels. But then again I made the mistake of not increasing my volume to at least the same level as 4 sets of 2RM (which was my current program).
What I should have done is do 8 sets @ 105% RM (negative). This would have given me a greater volume then I had before and I probably would have seen some improvement.
im not getting it supervenom, so if i do 3x3 at 85% as my volume and intesity for the squat. I shuld do how much then in volume for negatives 9x1 with how much rest in between?