Good luck doing 5 reps of max effort eccentric.

This post was edited by CMBurns on Jan 18 2011 02:29pm

If it's strictly an eccentric exercise, he can do it. 130% RM1 regards the RM1 of an individual's Concentric+Eccentric repetition.
Of course, you would need a partner or partners performing the concentric part for you, oak.

This post was edited by Synonym on Jan 19 2011 01:20am

Depends on the speed of the eccentric.

You can't really do more than 2 or 3 reps if your eccentric phase lasts 8-10 seconds

It will not last that long.
Eccentric contractions should last 4 seconds at an average. This being an eccentric workout, he needs only to deal with eccentric timing.
He would then have his partners lift the weight back up within another 1-2 seconds, without his involvement.

Yes I know about eccentric workouts, I do them to make it easy for me on the eccentric phase during 1RMs.

I make mine last 8-10 seconds because I found it was much much much (x10) more beneficial.

Bump

thats the way to train

alright so i put it to the test...

my 1rm BP max is 275lbs

130% puts me at 357lbs

Which is jst outrageous...

i decided to try it with 315lbs ... thus only being 40lbs more than my 1rm

i could perform 3 eccentric reps at which which would take 3 seconds for the majority of the negaive but once my elbows broke 90 the weight wld fall rather rapidly and only take up the last second to = 4 seconds

i wasnt too happy with how this felt and didnt think it did much but my chest was the most sore its ever been.

i am glad i listened to my gut and only put on 315lbs b/c i think if i would of loaded it 130% i could of gotten hurt.

Have you used 2 spotters? Or 1 spotter who could concentrically lift the weight back?

i had 2 for safe keeping but only had one actually lift the weight back conentrically