Grease the groove
Frequent easy sets of one lift spread through the day, never near failure
Pick one exercise. Do a comfortable set well short of your limit, walk away, and repeat it many times across the day. A bar in a doorway and a few pull-ups every time you pass it is the classic version. The reasoning treats strength as a skill: plenty of fresh, clean repetitions teach the nervous system faster than a few exhausting ones, and since no set is taxing, recovery never becomes the ceiling. Trainees typically cap each set near half their maximum reps and count the gaps in hours.
People on record
Sorted by strength of stance
Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Pavel TsatsoulineRecommends
Strength coach · StrongFirst
Get strong and symmetrical first, then grease the groove with all sorts of jumps, is the order he sets. He leans on Soviet coaches for the pattern: many short practices spread through the day with long enough gaps to recover, sub-maximal rather than all-out, and quotes a high jump coach whose athletes jumped stairs, fences and into bed.
Source: StrongFirst: The Case for Grease-the-Groove Jump Training
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