Exercise tip of the week

For all you intermediate and advanced weight lifters and sports trainers who want increased strength and power do this. Pause at the bottom of the lowering (eccentric) phase of your lifts for a 3-4 second count and then perform the lifting (concentric phase). You'll find that the pause makes it a lot harder than going up and down at a quicker speed, as your muscles lose the stored elastic energy created by the eccentric contraction, which would normally boost the concentric one.