Originally Posted by
Scott R. Brown
It falls under the category of Hard Qigong.
Yes, "perceived" measures are notoriously unscientific and a poor measure at best. However, for experienced practitioners you can definitely "perceive" a benefit and difference over not performing the exercises at all.
It is a small step to performing some EMG tests however. It would be interesting to see. Also one could do some weight tests. Then perform solely DT and then retest.
I am not saying it made me stronger, I do not know, but my muscle control was phenomenal.
I'll get back to the hard qigong for a minute, but first:
Not too long ago I did a test for a friend of mine, he hooked up some elctromyosomethingorothers to my muscles as I did the Iron wire.
These things measure muscle activity, or muscle fibre recruitment, some crap like that.
Anyways, I did some moves at full tension and some at "just enough" and the muscles at full tension were as activated as when I was doing a ST exercise and was going to the point of failure ( not failure but close to it).
Example:
During a dip exercise, as I got close to failure about 92% of the chest muscles were "firing", and during a typical pressing ( Jai kui for example), is was close to the 90% also.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !