negatives

[Bonevt]

My coach was talking about a drill called negatives i think its something like a fast leg drill. Can anyone explain this anymore?

Thanks

[bel142]

That is a pretty vague question, HOWEVER, a fast leg drill called a 'negative' may be, running a hill work out with a negative grade, (your running down the hill) getting your motor neurons to fire faster, so you don’t fall down but you have less stress on your legs because your not running Up the hill, or even with your normal body weight.

The object of this drill is to train your nervous system, basically get your nervous system to fire faster and more together. The final goal being for your motor neurons to have many more action potentials when you need them to work, making their action potential threshold lower, so they fire quicker and more efficiently.

If that makes sence.

[vault3rb0y]

basically imagine being force to run faster than you could normally, to build kind of like "reflexes". This can be done with a hill or with a speed bungee... where one guy runs and the other guy kind of jogs and the running guy sling-shots past him. They are actually kind of fun.

The opposite would be resistence training, or i guess you could call it positives?? Using a resistence bungee... with one guy behind you and a stretched bungee to hold you back, then you just drive your knees and try to run against it. Or you can do this going UP a hill. Or you can even just one of those hip straps that attaches to a 45 Ib plate or 2 behind you, and run with that.

These drills always remind me of doing incline and decline press to target muscles used in bench press.

resistence and speed bungees force you to work parts of your body for running more than if you were to actually run. This way when you do run, you arent as slowed down by any of these aspects.

[lonestar]

Unless the reference was to Negatives in the weight room, which are essentially working the eccentric contraction (or lowering of a weight) on a lift.

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