Taking the bench press as an example.....strictly speaking people could look at me and say I should be slowing the bar movement up and down when I do my heavy set reps. Ok...I'm willing to deal with the looks of disapproval from purists (or the insecure) to work on my strength and eventually improving that max. I try to avoid the obvious form issues like bouncing the bar off of the chest and cheating by not lowering the bar so that it touches the chest.
I use incline presses to stay at a static weight with my reps but adjust by slowing down bar movement up and down. In this case, the looks of disapproval re. perfect form are more important.
In other words, I think there is a time and place for both.
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