Comments on: Kai Greene Schools Ego Lifters With The Truth

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:20:07 +0000

@Luke. Yes, ensuring the tension never leaves the muscle. As an advanced technique, you can stop and rest, but only AFTER positive failure is already reached – then hammer out an extra rep or 2. Give it a try.

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:18:32 +0000

@Paul. Yes, good point.
@CM89. Yes, you’re probably being a little unreasonable in your expectations. Lift with the type of form I am advocating to failure – every set. Of secondary importance is the increases – but you still should be going up a rep on say half of all your sets on every workout.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 03:53:31 +0000

Kai Greene gives good advice, but nobody gets muscle size like that without a little “extra help”. It’s interesting that the video and his sweatshirt seem to be sponsored by “Muscle Meds”.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:08:51 +0000

Hi Mark,

When you say constant tension do you mean no stopping (like a rest pause)?

If that is so, I do find that with certain excersises if I don’t stop at the start position of each rep, it “burns” more. As an example I find with the tricep pushdown (cable) if I don’t allow my arms to return to the complete start position (as in hardley any resistance pulling the cable back) it feels as though the tension is never off, and I assume that’s what we want?

Also, if this is the case how do we implement that with somthing like a squat or lunge where the standing start position doesn’t feel like there is much if any tension until the main part of the movement is preformed?

I’m not criticizing by the way, I’m just highly interested in that constant tension concept as I’ve never come across it in that sense.

Thanks,

Luke

By: CM89

CM89 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:25:34 +0000

Awesome video. Kai Greene is a bear.

I feel like I always start a THT cycle lifting immaculately, but by the end of the 10 weeks my form is probably slipping. At the start I am setting the benchmark, and as the weeks go on I am trying to beat it every week, possibly with the sacrifice of form.

Mark, do you think it’s better to maintain perfect form, week in, week out, even if your weights/reps aren’t increasing every week, or vice versa?

I think I already know the answer to this, which leads to: what am I doing wrong that’s preventing me from moving up every week whilst retaining perfect form? Or is it unreasonable to expect to be flying up the weights this quickly?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:13:02 +0000

Absolutely correct. This is how I train now, after many years of sub-optimal technique and growth. The only thing I would also emphasise is that you use the intended muscle only to move the weight eg. the bicep for curls, not the shoulder or neck, and maybe the forearm but to a much lesser extent. I hope I’m correct in saying this. If not, I’m sure Mark will correct!

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:32:21 +0000

I admit to struggling with this. It’s not easy to reset as you say. It feels like losing progress.
This will I’ll do it. I’m excited about it as I haven’t made size gains in a long time.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:31:04 +0000

Well said!