CONCUSSION REPS
BY DAVE HENRY
2002 NPC NATIONAL MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION

The key to power bodybuilding

The only bodybuilder worthy of his profession is a power bodybuilder. He couldn’t care less about what he sees in a mirror. Rather, he feels the call to get into the gym every day for no other reason than to slam the heaviest weights he’s ever tried. You can spot these guys a mile away. They’re as big as bridge pilings and just as hard. Worse, you can spot the guys who don’t power bodybuild. They don’t have hard muscle; it’s beach muscle. That’s fine for the average Joe, but for me?
No way. I’m not in this game to look at myself, but to lift — and the only way to lift is from the soul. That’s power bodybuilding. It’s doing whatever you can to magnify the resistance against your muscles, and I accomplish that with extreme overload and concussion reps. I pound away like a piston, as hard as I can, at the heaviest weight I can find, until one of us gives.

EXPLODE | Concussion reps cannot be cautious reps, where I’m only concerned with the precise firing of each precious muscle fibre. Just the opposite. I want every last one of those precious muscle fibres ripped to shreds and smashed lifeless into charred, smoking, carboniferous debris. I lift very heavy weight, and the only way to rep it is to get a run for it and ram myself into the weight like a pile driver. I’m a fired cannonball, the weight is a concrete wall, and I’m going to hit it with such violence that it’ll disintegrate from the concussion.

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