Hypertrophy &
Improved Athletic Performance ECCENTRIC STRENGTH

Eccentric Strength training for improved athletic performance & hypertrophy

Bigger, stronger, flexible and functional muscles will improve athletic performance in any sport.

When using our retrofitted ECCENTRIC STRENGTH equipment for hypertrophy training to increase muscle mass and strength, we have seen amazing results.

High Intensity Eccentric Overload Training

For hypertrophy to occur, the training needs to be high intensity to failure, and the resistance needs to be progressed to stimulate muscle growth each time the muscle is trained to avoid adaptation.

Due to the effectiveness and total neurological muscle activation with our heavy duty flywheel equipment, we have found that less volume and frequency is needed; More sets and frequency was not beneficial, but rather leads to overtraining.

With this realization we adopted the training philosophy of the legendary Mike Mentzer.

*Mike Mentzer (November 15, 1951 – June 10, 2001) was an American professional bodybuilder, businessman, and author. One of the most iconic bodybuilders of all time, a brilliant mind, a student of medicine, philosophy, and someone that thought outside the box.

He devised the High Intensity Heavy Duty Training theory that still, to this day, inspires athletes and weight lifters that want to develop muscle size, strength, and explosiveness.

According to Mike Mentzer, when it comes to progressive performance training for hypertrophy, strength, and speed, the training needs to be intense, brief, and infrequent for an athlete to be able to have continuous progress.

  • Every set needs to be high intensity to total failure.
  • Every set needs to be brief: only one or two sets for each muscle.
  • Training needs to be infrequent, since the more intense the training progressively gets, the longer recovery is needed and training needs to be more spaced out.

More Efficient saves Time

If the heavy duty flywheel training is intense, brief, and less frequent, the athlete will have more time to recover. In traditional weight lifting, an athlete trains each muscle for multiple sets one or two times a week, versus high intensity heavy duty eccentric flywheel training, when each muscle is trained only one set to complete failure every two or three weeks. It’s not the quantity of sets or hours trained, but rather the intensity and quality of time spent that is important to gain greater muscle mass and strength.

Bigger, Stronger and more Flexible Muscles

The fact that the eccentric phase in heavy duty flywheel training is both strengthening AND lengthening the muscles trained versus conventional gravity based weight lifting which only strengthens and shortens the muscles, the athlete gets more flexible, less sore, and experiences less overtraining and injuries.

Due to neurological and muscular adaptation, resistance and intensity need to be continuously progressed for continued progress of hypertrophy and strength.

The extremely effective total muscle activation and muscle fatigue one gets from high intensity, heavy duty progressive flywheel training with our Eccentric Strength equipment, is perfectly suited for Mike Mentzer’s training philosophy.

Ideally in progressive training, every training session should be better than the previous. For that to become reality the athlete must be sufficiently recovered from the previous work out. Complete recovery has to do with the quality and quantity of sleep, quality and quantity of food and nutrients, management of daily stress, time between each workout, and the athletes commitment to and engagement in their workout. In theory, if all those aspects are met, strength and hypertrophy will continue until an athlete reaches their genetic potential or age catches up with him or her.