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in 1992 Darden released a book that was based on splitting the body into 4 quadrants. You trained the left lower body on the same day as the right upper body. The next workout you switched the quadrants. has anyone tried this and if so, what were your results?
I've never used it , but I thought about doing a Negative Accentuated version of it. Lift with both limbs lower with the right side only and instead of alternating the lowering with the left, continue the negatives with the right side only . Then two or three days later do it the other way around. I've never really tried it , but I think it might be a good way to utilize NA. I call it contra-lateral NA , oddly enough.
Or would the supporting leg reach normal (positive) failure since it will in time fail when the NA working leg cannot contribute anything to the lifting part?
Bill Sekerak wrote:
I've never used it , but I thought about doing a Negative Accentuated version of it. Lift with both limbs lower with the right side only and instead of alternating the lowering with the left, continue the negatives with the right side only . Then two or three days later do it the other way around. I've never really tried it , but I think it might be a good way to utilize NA. I call it contra-lateral NA , oddly enough.
Or would the supporting leg reach normal (positive) failure since it will in time fail when the NA working leg cannot contribute anything to the lifting part?
Be well, train hard & think smart!
I am not sure, as I really haven't put it into practice yet, but I think it would be the former as the limb doing both should fail first so you could terminate the set when the limb doing " all " the work is no longer able to contribute much to the concentric. but the other limb could. Thus in effect an NTF for the limb not involved in the negatives.
johnrfit wrote:
in 1992 Darden released a book that was based on splitting the body into 4 quadrants. You trained the left lower body on the same day as the right upper body. The next workout you switched the quadrants. has anyone tried this and if so, what were your results?
I used the the workout organization with tennis players. They loved it.
If I remember right, Dr. Darden recommended that technique for working with baseball pitchers, due to the extreme contralateral efforts in their sport. I figured tennis players had similar sport requirements, so I gave it a try. The only thing I changed was keeping with a three day a week training plan, instead of going with the recommended four day a week plan. We made sure to not train the 'tennis side (usually left leg, right arm)' on or near a day of competition, and organized the routine so they did the 'tennis side' soon after the competition.
Bill Sekerak wrote:
I've never used it , but I thought about doing a Negative Accentuated version of it. Lift with both limbs lower with the right side only and instead of alternating the lowering with the left, continue the negatives with the right side only . Then two or three days later do it the other way around. I've never really tried it , but I think it might be a good way to utilize NA. I call it contra-lateral NA , oddly enough.
Bill
You don't have to do it this way.
You have plenty of stuff left to do BOTH sides unilaterally, ie forced reps and negatives,
I've done it many times fatiguing one side then moving right to fatiguing the other side using the previously fatigued side to assist.
You recover quickly enough to do both sides together if you wish.
:)
I've been using the alternate left/right NA between workouts things for a few weeks and it seems to work for me.
I don't really see the point in doing NA alternating left/right bewtween each rep because you still end up failing on the positive, so how is it better than just doing normal positive/negative?
What I really like about alternate left/right NA between workouts is that the side that I am working on really gets "hammered", for want of a better term. In the past I have had a bit of trouble mentally pushing myself to failure and the NA thing seems to solve that.
I'm only doing NA for the upper body and in one workout I do NA for the same side for all exercises. - I do the other side at the next workout.
Sesame wrote:
Bill Sekerak wrote:
I've never used it , but I thought about doing a Negative Accentuated version of it. Lift with both limbs lower with the right side only and instead of alternating the lowering with the left, continue the negatives with the right side only . Then two or three days later do it the other way around. I've never really tried it , but I think it might be a good way to utilize NA. I call it contra-lateral NA , oddly enough.
Bill
You don't have to do it this way.
You have plenty of stuff left to do BOTH sides unilaterally, ie forced reps and negatives,
I've done it many times fatiguing one side then moving right to fatiguing the other side using the previously fatigued side to assist.
You recover quickly enough to do both sides together if you wish.
:)
Sure you can do it that way , but if you do it the way I suggested you can get an NTF for the alternate limb with each workout if you want to.
Bill Sekerak wrote:
Sesame wrote:
Bill Sekerak wrote:
I've never used it , but I thought about doing a Negative Accentuated version of it. Lift with both limbs lower with the right side only and instead of alternating the lowering with the left, continue the negatives with the right side only . Then two or three days later do it the other way around. I've never really tried it , but I think it might be a good way to utilize NA. I call it contra-lateral NA , oddly enough.
Bill
You don't have to do it this way.
You have plenty of stuff left to do BOTH sides unilaterally, ie forced reps and negatives,
I've done it many times fatiguing one side then moving right to fatiguing the other side using the previously fatigued side to assist.
You recover quickly enough to do both sides together if you wish.
:)
Sure you can do it that way , but if you do it the way I suggested you can get an NTF for the alternate limb with each workout if you want to.
Bill
Bill, |i don't do NTF's! You can do a NO if you want to! I can fatigue each side one after another same day same WO! Why do an NTF??
:)
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