Is TUT worth focusing on during a set? It seems that tempo used to be much more popular, but now the idea seems to be explosive concentric, followed by an under control eccentric. I have been following this style and for the first time I checked to see how long a set of bent over rows were. The set was done in 25-30 seconds. Should I slow it down and prolong the TUT in order to see hypertrophy?
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TUT in isolation is flawed for a couple of reasons-- the time of exposure to a weight means very little without considering the over all tension-time stimulus created, which can be skewed by heavier and faster loads. Muscle responds to overload, not to a duration of exposure in itself.
Lastly, I'm not going to take away from my focus on a set to count how long it's taking.
People have been growing for quite awhile with no considerations for TUT, beyond a general prescription of "go faster" or "go slower"
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I understand why people want to keep track of the TUT but I never do. I either do a slow eccentric and as fast a concentric as possible or I do both fast but controlled. Every once in a while I do slow steady reps on some exercises. That's about as close as I've ever gotten to keeping track of tempo. It just seems like an unnecessary anal retentive detail.
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Its funny...I was exposed to TUT in Charles Poliquin's "Principles..." book a few years ago and really began paying attention to each individual rep.
Honestly, it is something that you cannot do forever. As weighst got heavier and intensity increased, TUT went out the window. As movements are controlled, the timing became less important to me. I think TUT is good for people learning movements under resistance, but again, as loads increase it gets harder. It helps with strength, but limits with size.
I agree with everyone. Over the years I've found that everything (aside from controlling form) goes out the window once the weights get heavy.
That being said, I do find that I deliberately slow the eccentric part of the lift on certain exercises, like the squat. But, that's more in an effort to control the weight than create TUT.
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