Don’t sacrifice technique for the sake of intensity. When most inexperienced lifters think “bounce”, they fall into the squat, lose tightness, kill the bounce, and have a bitch of a rep... Lift angry and attack the critical part of your reps. You need to volitionally hit the rep as hard as you can. If there was any question to how hard you hit it, then it wasn’t hard enough. Punch through the rep and lift angry.i'm going to try to keep this in mind when i lift tonight. speed has been slowing at the bottom of my back squats, but if i up my intensity as i approach each rep, i might be able to get that back.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
"attacking the rep"
a great article from 70's big.
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I find it really helps if I think of something that pisses me off. Like Cliff's inside-out socks in the laundry. Or an empty milk container left on the counter. Or Cliff's messy desk. (It's like all my Cliff-irks come out in my lifting. Turns out they only last a while though; the socks were a bigger issue a couple months ago, having dwelled on them in my lifts, they don't irk me so much anymore. Bonus for life at home.) Anyway, see if you can find those little things that piss you off and focus on them when you hit that rep. An internal dialogue of associated expletives helps, too.
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