Slow Lowers For Athletes
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August 1, 2025
There's a point during slow lowers, if you allow yourself to get there, where you can do a slow lower for three to five minutes at any time you want. So, whether it's a slow lower deep push-up, a slow lower lunge, or whatever it is, there's a point where you can get to where you can do that whenever you want for three to five minutes and press back out of it every single time.
And when we get to that point, your body is actually physiologically different. Your body and your tissues have learned how to recover at a higher level as you work, which then gives you a much greater level of capacity. And so the thing that I would say with slow lowers is: don't just do them to do them.
Do them with the goal or with the objective of legitimately and actually getting three to five minutes with the press back up at the end. Every single time, right? So it's not just to do them. Like, if you're doing them, let's say you've been doing them for a year, two years, three years, but you still can't get that press up. We're not getting the effect from those that we want.
We're not changing the body in the way that we want. So, like, instead of just going and doing them, actually dig in deep enough, push hard enough. Be willing to experience the level of discomfort, to experience the level of sensation that is required to actually get the three to five minutes and do that over and over and over, and your body will change and adapt, In the way that it should from them.