I like instant results. It’s not that I’m impatient, I just like knowing when something is working as quickly as possible. 
This is probably why I like Eat Stop Eat so much, in as little as a day you can drop anywhere from 2 to 5 pounds.
Awesome.
But it’s this need for quick results that has kept me from experimenting with some age-old workout principles, that have always made a lot of sense to me.
So if you have the patience… These may be some highly effective Ideas:
1) Down the rack
This one is fairly simple. We’ll use Squats as our example exercise.
Set the safety’s in a power rack to about 1/4 squat level. Work up to doing lock outs with a weight you can barely handle for 3 reps.
Every week, lower the safety pins by one hole…and then work up to the same weight, once you can do more 3 or more, lower the height again. (hopefully you have a rack with 1 inch rack holes.)
The idea being that eventually you will work your way to full squat depth using what was previously your 1/4 squat 3 rep max.
2) The Abacus
Another fairly simple idea
Start with 85% of your 1 rep max and do 10 sets of 1 with 30 second rest inbetween each set
On the second week start with 2 reps, then do 8 sets of singles
On the following week start with 3 reps, then do 7 sets of singles
On the following week start with 4 reps, followed by 6 sets of singles.
Then each week, do one more rep in your first set, then subtract one of the singles.
The idea being you are always doing 10 reps, only each week you are moving closer towards doing 1 set of 10 reps with 85% of what was your 1 rep max.
Either technique makes a lot of sense on paper, it’s just that most people don’t have the patience to stick it out for 10 weeks, and jump to a new workout before they were able to reap any rewards.
But as I said, if you have the patience, I think these two can be winners.
BP
