Having read this article I immediately decided to try it’s principles on a rep of my daily pushups and Hindu squats.
I simply do the quasi-isometric rep aka super slow rep as the last rep of the set.
At this point I lower for roughly a 15 count, and raise for around a 25 count.
I find that I’m far better at slowing down the positive, and on the positive I can REALLY feel the muscles working.
On the pushups once my elbows are back at the 45/135° angle (top portion, quarter rep) my triceps are working like nothing else.
Yeah I like JM presses which seem the best for my triceps as far as overload and at the top, but this style of calisthenic rep hits them more thoroughly. I can only describe it as hitting the “deep” fibers, in the past I’ve seen this described as working the muscle from the inside out.
Having covered the pushups time for the Hindu squats:
This has given me the greatest quad pump in years if not in my life.
I swear I see quad growth, and I’ve only been doing this for the last week at most.
The Hindu squat works with this even better than the pushup.
You can raise it so slowly that it’s almost as if you’re not moving. Your legs about half way back up will shake like you’re in a wall sit, but there’s upward motion.
Give it a try, it’s another trick you can use to make an otherwise easy movement more challenging just like visualizing big weights during a light calisthenic.
-J