The Prevention and Treatment of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage

[Guest guest]

Casler wrote:

[...] The Heavy Weights and High Reps I use with a focus on CAT style

concentric and eccentric placing rather large and numerous high tensions on

the muscle during each set. (example last week performed 260 x 20, 300 x

16, 340 x 10 in the pulldown, followed by DB Pullovers 100# x 28, followed

by DB Rows 115# x 17, so my lats and back were a bit sore)

Pérez asks:

[...] If I may change the subject a little, your back training detailed

above reminded me of something I've been worried about lately. Have you

ever thought that such large resistances and such explosive and repeated

movements are liable to make a damaged cable snap in a pulldown or row

station? While I am not as strong as you in the pulldown - yet! - I

nevertheless use serious resistances in this exercise as well as in the

cable row. I also explode quite violently through the positive, and have

sometimes worried that if cables are not replaced regularly at a commercial

gym per manufacturer recommendations (this is Mexico after all), subjecting

an old and potentially worn cable to such large stresses could one day cause

me to break the cable, fly off the seat, and crash ass over teakettle on the

gym floor and break my neck. Comments?

Pérez

Reynosa, Mexico

Casler writes:

Hi ,

Sorry this got lost in my " IN " folder.

I always inspect the cables and equipment in my own gym and a frayed cable

get immediate replacement.

That said, I have not broken any cables, but have bent one of the pulldown

bars, (used for wide grip) and found a couple S-hooks beginning to

straighten, that were replaced with higher value replacements.

Regards,

Casler

TRI-VECTOR 3-D Force Systems

Century City, CA