Welcome to this episode of Body performance, I’m Steve Turano. Let me see if clear up another weight lifting myth for you. Once a while you see somebody on TV or on the today show or sixty minute something like that, they talking about lifting weights very slowly. As if this is somehow going to make things miraculously better essentially your lifting the to weight to count of 5 and then maybe lowering it to a count or 3. This is the big ways to tie. Now do not get me wrong its better that working out and doing nothing but let me tell you why this is not that affective. Weight lifting is a ballistic or explosive movement why? Because we want the muscle to contract intensely why? Because that going to change occurs in the muscle, when you’re lifting weights real slowly couple things happen.
Number one, you put undue amount of stress on muscle because the exercise movement is taking too long. Number 2, that same pressure is building up in the joint because the movement is taking so long and number 3, your using up vital oxygen and ATP, oxygen and energy so what happen is your muscle runs out of energy, runs out of juice before it’s actually work so essentially gets tired before really gets work fully and now this is in effective, it is not sufficient. I do not know about you but I do not want to spend hours in the gym, I want do my work out and go home so when you working out it is explosive, it is aggressive movement. Do not waste your time at counts of 2 0r 3or 4 just push the weight up lower it and push it again that’s the way to work out. I will see you next time. Love your body.
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