Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Pavel Tsatsouline Talks About VRT
" Because strength generally does not exceed 30% of your tendon strength, the strength govenor mechanism is set up way too conservatively. Scientists believe that pulling the brake from your gas pedal, that is minimizing the inhibitory imput into the muscles is the key that will open the door to super strength undreamed of by the strongest people in the world. Despite grandmothers wrestling leopards and mothers lifting cars to save their progeny supposedly do something to prevent the 'take it easy, you might get hurt' commands from reaching their muscles. Insane people bend bars in the windows of their cells- I believe they call them wards in the US- because their neural circuitry is goofed up. It does not recognize inhibitory input and does not hold you back.. This is the essence of DISINHIBITION TRAINING, THE HOTTEST NEW DIRECTION IN STRENGTH TRAINING. Of course we do not want to to totally lose our senses, rather learn to ignore them when we choose to.Enter FEED-FORWARD TENSION, one of the most promising disinhibition techniques. It requires you to maximally contract your muscles with a submaximal weight or NO WEIGHT WHATSOEVER. Remember Charles Atlas and his 'Dynamic Tension'method? You are supposed to imitate lifting a weight by flexing your muscles for all you have got. Just as Tai Chi Kung differs from visually similar calisthenics in concentration and awareness , 'Dynamic Tension' is an Oscar Winning pantomime of a world record powerlift, and not just a mindless going through the motions.The guy in the leopard skin swim suit did not invent the method. Russian Scientists Anokin and Proshek did in the early 1900s. Or so they thought. Bodhidharma, the semi mythical progenitor of Oriental martial arts from India, may have practiced such exercises a millennium and a half ago.Scientists were skeptical of 'Dynamic Tension' for a while suspecting that by creating artificial resistance within your muscles you learn to put on the brakes. The Soviet study by Kovalik established beyond the shadow of a doubt that ' virtual lifting' builds strength even in the so called quick lifts.""Power to The People"by Pavel TsatsolinePages 71& 72
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However, in the next paragraph Pavel says:
"High values of muscular tension was one reason, but today we can think of another. Maximally tensing the muscles in the absence of resistance or with a light weight is only possible when the ubject ignores the feed-back offered by his muscles and tendons, namely, that there is no resistance to contract against. The opposite of a normal feedback operation, the feed-forward tension technique of maximally contracting the muscles regardless of the weight, should build superhuman strength! Once the muscles are subjected to a very heavy load, they will be able to successfully ignore the reality and lift the damn thing! Keep in mind that you must lift real heavy weights at least some of the time. Martial arts masters who practice sanchin or ‘Iron Shirt’ exercises know that they must break things or otherwise strike solid objects to realize the power built with dynamic tension. Your joints and connective tissues must get stronger as well as your muscles—for them virtual resistance will not cut it!"
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