Longshanks Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 In my recent daftness I realised that I was only doing a max of 30 seconds to my counting too fast, hence my metronome post. However, this did do a brilliant job of rehabilitating a string of injuries. Ever since I've started doing the full minute on each exercise my injuries have started to ache a little again. It seems I'm toeing the line of my recovery ability because when I cut back intentionally a max volume of 30seconds on each hold the bad joints stopped like overnight. My question is this, would I be better just continuing with a max volume of 30secs per exercise indefinitely? I have had some modest gains with this abbreviated time-frame but I'm not sure that's just beginner gains. I read on various posts I found that volume capacity does increase over time but is that over months or years? Would it be worth spending a 3 month cycle building up the volume to a minute gradually, or sticking to these low volume static holds for a year or so and then think about building it up? Cheers for any helpLongshanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blairbob Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Spend 3 weeks at the 30s. Heck you could spend an entire 8-12 week cycle on it. Perhaps every 3 weeks, add 5s. I think you get the idea. Are you working out 2, 3 or 4 days a week? This is another way to manage volume and increase rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longshanks Posted April 2, 2010 Author Share Posted April 2, 2010 I'm currently doing 3 days a week. Yea that sounds like a good plan. Think I'll stick to 30secs for a month then add an extra 5-10sec hold once a month until I get to a minute. Will probably end up being a 4-5 month cycle but maybe that's what I need.Cheers for the feedback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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