@pwftraining: Time Under Tension (TUT) is a USELESS term when it comes to muscle growth. You’ll often find people slowing down their eccentric and concentric portions of their reps (voluntarily) to increase “Time Under Tension”. Now technically this will increase time under tension but it’s not useful tension. The only tension that matters in terms of hypertrophy is MECHANICAL TENSION (the main driver of muscle growth). Mechanical tension is the pulling force that tries to lengthen our muscles as we are trying to contract them. Mechanical tension is present in every rep we do but is only highly present when we’ve reached an involuntary slowing in contractile velocity. Additionally, voluntarily slowing down our reps is useless, ESPECIALLY on the concentric. We want to produce as much force as possible on the concentric to insure that we reach an involuntary slowing in contractile velocity / have more highly active type 2 fibers sooner than later and to regulate force output - thus regulating progressive overload. So to sum this all up: - keep a reasonable eccentric (2-3s) - Explode into the concentric - Train at 2-0RIR to maximize mechanical tension / to achieve an involuntary slowing in your contractions - Don’t Yap about “time under tension” DM or comment “PWF” for a FREE month of online coaching 🦾 Comment if you have any questions Like and follow for more hypertrophic content - #gym #GymTok #fyp #foryou #strengthtraining #sciencebasedtraining #pwftraining #musclegrowth #timeundertension

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