Interesting, I have always just arched my back and forced them to elongate despite the cramp to get them to stop. I may have to try a dead hang next time and see which is more effective for me.
Yeah I can normally stop an ab cramp within 10-30 seconds doing that. Then again for all I know it is stopping on its own but autoinhibition from stretching while contracted/cramped is what I always thought was stopping them.
Hope your wife has a good and successful meet. That would be pretty cool after you’ve won your meet if she’s able to come in about 5 weeks later and take first in the Nationals. Man, talk about a family of champions.
Hope your wife has a good and successful meet. That would be pretty cool after you’ve won your meet if she’s able to come in about 5 weeks later and take first in the Nationals. Man, talk about a family of champions.
Haha it was a fun challenge - all of a sudden at rep 42 it went from easy to “I’m not going to make it!”
Thanks for the kind words! I’m sure it will stacked in this middleweight lineup so I have no idea how it will go, but for her part she is the strongest she’s been since my son was born. In some things, stronger now than ever! Also woke up at weight today, so she won’t have any cutting to do.
Haha it was a fun challenge - all of a sudden at rep 42 it went from easy to “I’m not going to make it!”
did not need this challenge in my head LOL!
I've repped out plenty with 135 or 155 etc but never tried for 50 at 95
Oh yeah, definitely have had only one, or just a few of them.
Oh yeah, I have ALWAYS hit my cramps to get them to stop. It is just automatic, I never had to think about it, just something I have always done. I do even hit my abs when cramping too, I think it is the combo of hitting them and the forced stretch creating some autoinhibition.
My thought was golgi tendon reflex, that maybe striking it makes the contracted muscle think the contraction is about to cause damage so it lets go out of self preservation. However that may just be correlation not causation. My wife freaks out sometimes because my neck/jaw muscle will cramp sometimes due to left over issues from an old bout with Bell's Palsy. I will hit myself in the neck right under my ear where it cramps up very hard if pressing my thumb into it does not stop and. She just looks at me like why are you trying to knock yourself out over there? Now she knows and just lets it go because she knows I am in a lot of pain and fighting through it.
I see your starting to ramp your weights back up……Time to unleash the Beast.
Yeah it’s crazy how the light weight high reps does. You start out and it feels like nothing, and then it’s like you hit a wall and just can’t keep going. You should try @Rocket3015 100 rep squat challenge. Sounds fairly easy doing 100 squats with just the bar, then when you get to about 75 you start thinking what have I got myself into….very humbling.
I glad you "Enjoyed" yourself !
Crush the competition and every event Mrs. Hyde! Whole AM crew is rootin for you!
Too cool man, can't wait to see the updates
