In my last article, I presented a few workout routines along with some training ideas for using high-frequency training (HFT) with what is commonly termed “grease-the-groove” workouts. After writing it, I had a few thoughts still rumbling around my mind for some various ways that you can implement and use HFT. HFT, just like other methods of training, has multiple routines and programs that you can work with. Grease the groove training is sometimes called synaptic facilitation . Why? It comes from Russian research on strength training and the methods that the countries from the former Soviet Union used in both weightlifting and powerlifting training. “Soviet research clarified that repetitive stimulation of a motoneuron increases the strength of its synaptic connections and may even form new synapses… the process is called synaptic facilitation or, in lifter speak, ‘grease the groove’... by frequen...
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