A lot of questions

[danpfef]

So I'm reading and reading, because knowledge is power.


A lot of things that I'm reading I just don't quite understand, mainly because I haven't visually seen them.

1. What are negatives and what can I see from them?

2. Drop sets - what? All I'm grasping from what I've read is slowly drop my weight from my max, to failure on each set. Right?


All in all I'm looking to grow, and grow big. I'm working on my diet now, which is coming along well. I'm just looking for the best workout possible to get the best results possible. Any tips, any ideas? I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

[Benjo87]

Example of a negative: You know when you do a pull-up? you pull yourself up and then you drop back down again. The dropping down is the negative. When you do a benchpress, you push the bar up, when you lower it back down again that's the negative. Same with anything. Shoulder press you push it up, slowly lower it down again. Negatives are good for pull-ups. If you can't do a full set of pull-ups yet, jump up on the bars, get yourself into the pull-up position and slowly lower yourself down. Do 12 reps of lowering yourself down from the pull-up position and you feel it.

A drop set is when you start heavy and go until you can lift it anymore (staying within 12 reps) once you can't lift it you drop the weight down so you can get 6-12 more reps. Once you can't lift it drop it again.

[sharpieblet]

you asked like 3 questions...that's not a lot...

negatives are just when you focus on doing the negative motion of an exercise as slowly as possible (ex: when bringing the bar down on bench press you do it very slowly, and ideally have someone spot the weight back up so as not to use any more effort than necessary on the positive portion)

drop set is just doing a set, then dropping the weight by intervals and doing the same thing until you've done however many sets you've wanted. like doing hammer curls with 45s for a set of 10, 40s for a set of 8, 35s for a set of 8, 30s for a set of 6, etc...

if you're a beginner or novice lifter, neither technique is really necessary for anything.

[TBU720]

Important thing about drop sets is that you are immediately continuing on to the lighter set. I do them with lat pulldowns so I'll do like 140 for as many reps as I can, then immediately put it on 80 and bang out like 10 more reps and then maybe I'll go super low like 50 and do as many as I can. One set right after the next

[jammyo40]

if you're a beginner or novice lifter, neither technique is really necessary for anything.

^ This.

[danpfef]

^ This.

I've been weight-lifting for about 5 years, and I'm also in the military so keeping up my shape/growing is something I train for daily.


And yes, there are more questions but I'm not about to start flooding them. I have a ton of questions that I'm slowly resolving by reading the FAQ's and forums. These are just 3 off of the top of my head that I couldn't find an answer for. Thank you.