Scooby's Home Bodybuilding Workouts Forced Negatives

If you have stopped making progress and can't even seem to work out hard enough to get sore the next day then perhaps its time to try forced negatives.   Dont overuse these!   In forced negatives you use more weight than you can lift so either a workout partner or your other hand needs to help get the weight up then you lower the weight slowly under your own power.

 

Forced Negatives Exercise Video Clips
	Lats: On the overhead cable use a stirrup grip and choose a weight about 60% of what you would use on a lat pulldown.  Now pull the grip down and assist with your free hand. When you get the stirrup down, release your assisting hand and try to very slowly let the weight stack down.  Immediately assist with your free hand to get the stirrup in position for the next forced rep.
	Biceps: watch the first 30 seconds of this video to see how to do forced negatives on biceps.  You take your normal dumbbell weight and add about 20%, now there is no way you can do a curl with it so you help the dumbbell up using your other hand.  When you get the dumbbell to the top you let go with your assisting hand and try to lower the dumbbell slowly.  Repeat this for 8 reps, its killer!
	Chest: This is a bit tougher to do but let me give you some ideas.  First you could do this using pushups.  Do a normal pushup to the up position.  Put on hand behind your back and slowly lower yourself to the ground one handed.  Use both arms to push yourself up again and put the other hand behind your back and once again lower yourself slowly to the down position.  Repeat for as many reps as you can.
	Triceps: Do a one handed cable pushdown using a stirrup grip with about 20% more weight than your single rep max weight.  Using your free hand, help the working hand down then remove the assisting hand.  Now very slowly allow the weight stack back down over 2-3 seconds.  Repeat as many forced reps as you can.