I am either too lazy to find these answers or just have not ran across them yet so please help me out. How long is a cycle? What is a negative? When do you change reps from 15 to 10 to 5? When do you change your max? And when do you take the 9-14 days off? Thanks ahead, Todd
6-8 weeks. Your first cycle is 8, your following cycles are 6. Lowering the weight only. As an example, a negative bench press would be you lowering the weight and then having spotters pick it back up again. Negatives allow us to use extremely heavy weight and therefore push a muscle hard. There is a lot of research backing up the use of negatives. Every two weeks. First two weeks: 15. Second two weeks: 10. Third two weeks: 5. Last two weeks: Strategic Deconditioning. Once a cycle. At the very end of a cycle, after the 5's. Keep reading. -Q
Thanks, I got unlazy and found all of this on the site and really enjoyed the read. I really appreciate you replying!!
