Maximo
12-10-2003, 07:14 PM
Lately I've been doing a lot of dumbell snatches and cleans and press. (I don't have clubbells yet.) But I've been using heavier weight than usual and really shortening the rest times. I usually use an 80 or 90lbs dumbell and do 10 sets of 5 then five sets of 10. I try to keep the rest between 10 and 15 seconds. During this time I've started using the control pause and it's been really working I'm sorry I ever doubted it.
When I first started trying it when I would get winded I would do the breathing out and have anxiety from not breathing in. At that time I thought this control pause stuff is crazy it will never work. But then I realize that's all it was, was anxiety. I really didn't have to breath heavy it was just a normal pattern that I had developed over time. I get winded breath heavy over and over again. It was really just a mental thing like having a craving for a box of chocolate chip cookies, I don't really need them but at the time sure does feel like I do. Well any way I remembered a line from the Maximology tape from Coach Sonnon
"Someone is always watching you." And my ego and just plain not wanting to look like a sissy all hunched over trying to catch my breath wouldn't let me stop practicing.
For about a week and a have I found my self sprint from place to place mailbox, fridge, ect. to purposely make myself get into oxygen debt to practice this. Well low and behold the darn thing works. I've noticed now through my workout I can do this and get myself more focused between sets. I can take shorter rest and do more work in the same period of time. And the icing on the cake is I don't look like I'm dying throughout a workout. Now when I get done with lifting weights I have more energy to go on a run instead of just calling it a day after a hard session of lifting. I've shown this to the kid that lives across the street from me that wrestles and plays football. It really seems to be working for him to. Well that's my experience with the control pause. I hope it wasn't to long of a read.
When I first started trying it when I would get winded I would do the breathing out and have anxiety from not breathing in. At that time I thought this control pause stuff is crazy it will never work. But then I realize that's all it was, was anxiety. I really didn't have to breath heavy it was just a normal pattern that I had developed over time. I get winded breath heavy over and over again. It was really just a mental thing like having a craving for a box of chocolate chip cookies, I don't really need them but at the time sure does feel like I do. Well any way I remembered a line from the Maximology tape from Coach Sonnon
"Someone is always watching you." And my ego and just plain not wanting to look like a sissy all hunched over trying to catch my breath wouldn't let me stop practicing.
For about a week and a have I found my self sprint from place to place mailbox, fridge, ect. to purposely make myself get into oxygen debt to practice this. Well low and behold the darn thing works. I've noticed now through my workout I can do this and get myself more focused between sets. I can take shorter rest and do more work in the same period of time. And the icing on the cake is I don't look like I'm dying throughout a workout. Now when I get done with lifting weights I have more energy to go on a run instead of just calling it a day after a hard session of lifting. I've shown this to the kid that lives across the street from me that wrestles and plays football. It really seems to be working for him to. Well that's my experience with the control pause. I hope it wasn't to long of a read.