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.
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- 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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