I’m not talking about lifting ‘slow’…but slow is also a relative term…after all, your squat and deadlift are probably much ‘slower’ then your bench press..but regardless, the post was more theoretical and speaking mostly to the concept of being able to feel the specific muscle you are attempting to work.

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It’s already been proven that you can contract muscles all day and they won’t grow bigger. Those electrical impulse machine scams have come and gone. I’m not convinced that contracting the muscle while holding weight will contribute to anything. You have to move big weights to grow big muscles.

As for the “feel”, I only “feel” the heaviness when I squat, but my legs are growing. Same with deadlifts too.
You can’t do them slowly…

I hear you. but lets say you have hardly any chest development. Lets say you can’t flex your chest voluntarily. Such a beginner will benefit from benching as much weight as possible.

- Same applies for not really having triceps development and starting doing dips, etc.

“My advice is as follows – if you want bigger arms, concentrate on training your arms. Sounds simple, but I can’t think of anything else that would really be worth advising.”

- I agree completely and this is one of the areas in which ‘functional training’ got it all wrong.

“You still have to ultimately lift ‘more’ as you become better. Rules of progression still apply, I’m just wondering if we lift too heavy we start to miss the point.”

Yup – if you can feel and control the muscle – this will work. Serge Nubret benches with 70kg or whatever when his max is probably 200kg. Same goes for Gironda and his ‘honest workout’ with very brief rest periods, perfect technique and tensing and ‘light weights.’

But – a foundation is a must I believe. I guess ‘muscle squeezing’ can work from the very beginning – if you train with somebody who knows how to do it right.

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OCE could just as easily mean Obsessive Compulsive Exercise as it does Obsessive Compulsive Eating.

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