Why Slow Lowers Make Skill Stick

Alright so i went over this a bit in my story (on instagram)  yesterday, but want to cover in detail here in a post - discussing the relationship of slow lowers I’ve found with positioning and ease of skill acquisition

So the first video above is a tennis serve from June of 2023 - at that time had been serving consistently for about 4 months

2nd video is a couple serves i hit today - it has been over a year since I’ve hit any serves

So for context - I’ve served seriously for about 6 months out of my whole life, and that’s it

Which okay cool who cares, but it takes me into my point about the slow lowers

Cause skill acquisition didn’t happen this easily for me before

If i go back to high school or college before i really figured out how to coordinate my body in these very simple moves (the slow lowers), things didn’t work that well

I trained 8 years of throwing every single day to top at 90.3mph on a crow hop lol

But since figuring these out, things have changed a bit

So the specifics:

3rd video is a slow lower deep pushup with 75lbs added, for 3 min - failed the press back up - but you can see afterwards myself flexing my elbow and pulling my arms back - reason was i could not believe how easy and light those felt - like it was robotic

and that’s the point here

When the slow lower deep pushup is done correctly, your bicep actually flexes your elbow. Your tricep actually extends your elbow. Your back pulls your humerus back, and your chest pulls it toward the center of your body - the bicep and tricep do not have friction with each other. And your back and pec do not have friction with each other

So there is nothing getting in the way of the movement. So yeah we can talk about movement efficiency, but what exactly is it? It’s that - lack of resistance and proper coordination IN ALL ENVIRONMENTS INCLUDING THOSE THAT ARE STRESSFUL

Now take and apply that to lower half and all other slow lower exercises we’ll do

And i think this is why skill acquisition has gotten much much easier for me and i really don’t have to practice much for it to stick

Cause the training in and of itself trains my body to operate efficient. Period.

So then i can go BE efficient in whatever i do.

Serve a tennis ball, throw a baseball, run a sprint, do a jump, make a cut, play a sport

My body will auto find the correct positions and will not slow itself down and get in the way

Obviously other aspects play into this like how you handle competition, etc

But by design the slow lowers pull you into full awareness, which if you understand that can implement into competitive or pressure filled environments too

Anyway post probs gonna run too long already, that’s it for today

But dope how robotic this stuff feels (in a good way) lol

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