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He didn’t come up with this realisation.Perhaps a misleading subject title.
Variable resistance.
He also uses fortagen.
As you probably know, Westside Barbell use resistance bands for some bench press workouts.He didn’t come up with this realisation.
Mike Mentzer and Arthur Jones were saying these kind of things decades ago:
you don’t really gain much by “lifting” weights, you’d gain more just by lowering them (the eccentric), in a very controlled manner.
People are around 40% stronger in the eccentric portion of a lift.
Variable resistance, or accommodating resistance, as the late Louie Simmons of Westside called it, and which essentially amounts to the same thing, was an idea which was likely not first conceptualised by the aforementioned Arthur Jones, but who tried to solve it with his range of Nautilus machines in the seventies.As you probably know, Westside Barbell use resistance bands for some bench press workouts.
The X3 equipment costs about £400 and it’s essentially resistance bands with a bar and base plate.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I’ve been incorporating some techniques for bench press from a Dave Tate programme but I’ll read up on those other people.Variable resistance, or accommodating resistance, as the late Louie Simmons of Westside called it, and which essentially amounts to the same thing, was an idea which was likely not first conceptualised by the aforementioned Arthur Jones, but who tried to solve it with his range of Nautilus machines in the seventies.
Jones added a CAM mechanism to his machines to provide varied resistance throughout the entire range of motion of a movement. He correctly reasoned that the problem with a barbell is that they can only move in a vertical plane, and training only with standard barbell exercises would not account for where a person is weakest through that movement.
Bands and chains were essentially Simmons attempt to solve the same problem, but without deviating away from use of the barbell.
Good gyms will generally be the ones which have machines with CAM mechanisms. Memberships of these places tend to be £20-£25 a month. Whereas bands, if you wish to go down the Simmons road and largely eschew machines in favour of almost exclusively training with barbells are pretty inexpensive (fwiw Simmons didn’t totally eschew machines, and even invented a couple himself I believe). So I see no reason why anyone in their right mind would wish to spend £400 to solve a problem which has had established solutions for the past several decades.
Yeah. I’ll give you an example, the barbell OHP is one of the slowest and most difficult lifts to progress for pretty much everyone.I saw a post on insta a while back saying something like this- you can lift a weight of 10kg, you can probably hold a weight of 15kg in the locked out position, but you can lower a weight of 20kg so negatives are good for loading.
Made sense to me, even if I’ve not explained it well here