Dave Reslo
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Post by Dave Reslo on Nov 24, 2020 20:32:40 GMT
Look up TSC (timed static contraction) it's HIT style isometrics done for usually around 90 seconds using three or four levels of intensity. Basically you ramp up the tension at 15, 30, 45, 60 or some number of seconds. Start light and for the last interval go 100%, which because you are tired by then really isn't 100% of your strength anymore. This is what Ken Hutchins is teaching these days as well. I wanted to stay away from deliberate muscle tension but might look this up as an aside because my working arrangements now mean I am very often in an empty office.
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Post by macky on Nov 25, 2020 4:38:40 GMT
Look up TSC (timed static contraction) it's HIT style isometrics done for usually around 90 seconds using three or four levels of intensity. Basically you ramp up the tension at 15, 30, 45, 60 or some number of seconds. Start light and for the last interval go 100%, which because you are tired by then really isn't 100% of your strength anymore. This is what Ken Hutchins is teaching these days as well. I think you're talking about the 30-30-30 holds of the TSC protocol that Silverlooks practices. We've also discussed holds like 20-20-20 etc and a guy who had a youtube with another ratio which I found more beneficial at the time, something like 20-20-10-10? From memory, it was Ken Hutchins that started the 30-30-30 back mid-90's, and it's tough ! You need breaks between workouts a la weight-training (which is what you feel like you've been doing the next day, minus the muscle soreness) and Drew Baye has a course with 30-30-30 holds, using a strap. I'm pretty sure Steve Maxwell uses the same hold time in his isometric course with strap (furniture lifter). Silverlooks was/is doing this protocol for a long time, apparently, and he looked really good. He hasn't been posting here after the Beirut explosion which wrecked his apartment, but which he only sustained minor scratches. I hope he's all right. The City was devastated.
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Post by doomfarer1 on Nov 25, 2020 18:27:55 GMT
Matt Furey had a workout, static holds without weights of course, called the No Rep Workout. Not many people could finish it, I think.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Nov 25, 2020 21:07:30 GMT
Matt Furey had a workout, static holds without weights of course, called the No Rep Workout. Not many people could finish it, I think. I think I found it? www.scribd.com/document/183492719/10GAIN-JanFeb2000-pdfIt's wall-sit, front and back wrestler's bridge, fingertip pushup mid-position (more like bottom position really), v-up, handstand against wall (facing the wall). He implies working up to about 3 minutes in each position. Actually maybe I should give the mid-pushup position a go next time. Later on in that magazine Karl Gotch supposedly answers combat sport questions without once admitting that wrestling was fake.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Nov 25, 2020 21:20:42 GMT
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Post by doomfarer1 on Nov 25, 2020 23:03:56 GMT
Dave, The above is about right I have it somewhere I’ll post if I come across it.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Mar 5, 2021 23:56:06 GMT
I think I did these almost exclusively for a month or so then forgot to write anything down about them. In general I didn't go as heavy as I'd initially planned, it is pretty tiring and monotonous work, although one thing I liked about it is you can kind of just go in and get started without much need for a warmup. I liked holds in back press position or to the front, and overhead pressing too, especially with my arm kept about ten degrees from lockout. Most of the rest eventually fell into two categories:
Bands anchored to a doorway trying out punch positions, sometimes with one band round the arm and another round the waist. I tried different stances here; weight on back leg pushing off for a jab, weight on front leg throwing rear hook etc. I was never really going that close to failure on any of it. It did make me feel more strength and ease shifting from one position to another, I think this stuff could really be of interest to a lot of martial artists.
Bands anchored to the bottom of a doorway: simulated stone lifting. I've missed stone lifting, I think this isn't a bad substitute. Facing the door with the hook handles in hand, I hold a position with a slight squat, arms bent, and wrists bent. This is the closest feeling I've found to keeping a stone on your lap, much closer than a barbell Zercher squat for example. I still do this both as a hold and for reps, playing about with arm position and sometimes looping the bands over my arms, going closer or further from the anchor to adjust tension. I think the band I've been using has lost some of its tension from this one though, so if anybody tries it be conscious of how much the band is being stretched.
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