What’s the theory behind this?

[lehman906]

He works up to a missed max then backs down and works up again over and over throughout the 90 minutes until he finally hits a new max. What’s the theory behind this? Why the constant backing down, and is there a pattern? Sometimes he’d back down to about 225, sometimes all the way to 155, but I couldn’t figure out why one and not the other. @Testiclaw? Any light you can shed?

[ChrisMcCarthy1979]

One thing is that misses can be corrected - the "depth" of the wave is going to be based on many issues, such as repetition reinforcing the correction (hopefully), the amount of recovery required, the type of exercise, potentiation potential (ha), etc...

Also they are quite fun.

[ChrisMcCarthy1979]

Oh, and on watching it please remember this is Ehab, who is known for liking to work up to a certain weight multiple times whilst loading the bar differently each time etc...

[mbasic]

I wouldn't put it past the idea of just being totally made up bullshit/programming and therefore there is no rhyme or reason to it.....the "quite fun" thing Chris mentioned.

[lehman906]

I wouldn't put it past the idea of just being totally made up bullshit/programming and therefore there is no rhyme or reason to it.....the "quite fun" thing Chris mentioned.

I kinda want to try this, but I would have to ignore the 2-4 other exercises I need to do.

[perman]

I think a youtube comment offered a plausible explanation:
"This video proves that good push press is very much a matter of proper tecnique, because if it was a matter of pure shoulder strength then it would have been impossible for him to max out after all those attempts - his muscle would have been exhausted"

[lehman906]

I think a youtube comment offered a plausible explanation:
"This video proves that good push press is very much a matter of proper tecnique, because if it was a matter of pure shoulder strength then it would have been impossible for him to max out after all those attempts - his muscle would have been exhausted"

That gives me hope, because I have weak shoulders and have always been more of a technique log presser.

[mbasic]

i realize the filming cuts out between the reps, but at the beginning, I get the impression he is doing this on his own: loading, etc

that's a pretty ragged pace, even though he only doing singles.

the drops have to be stripped down to a degree, and the powercleaned back into the rack.

collars are used a bit.

cardio (lolz)

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watching the reaction from the last rep at the end.
yeah, this was nothing more than just a fucking-around-session.