Creating Tension to Increase Strength

DIESELS,

 

Today, I am sharing with you one of the biggest

keys to improving strength performance, and I

learned this when I first started tearing cards.

 

Incidentally, the Card Tearing Week special is

still going on and you can pick up the Card

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When I first started tearing cards, there was

a lot of grunting, sweating, and fury, but there 

wasn't much tearing going on with the deck of 

cards.

 

Instead, the cards would slide all over the place

and I couldn't do what I wanted with them. 

 

Maybe you have seen this when you have torn

a deck of cards?

 

Eventually the decks would tear, but they were

turned into a mess because I had no control

over what I was doing.

 

This was very early in my strength journey, and

I was learning as I was going, and around that time

I read an article by Pavel Tsatsouline about Tension.

 

He wrote about creating Tension in the larger

muscles of the body in order to stabilize joints

and transfer this strength into the extremities. 

He was talking about the Bench Press in the

article, but I thought, "this has got to work

for card tearing."

 

So, I began experimenting with Tension, and

I found that if I squeezed the deck of cards really

hard, the muscles all the way up my arms and

into my torso would eventually all turn on as well.

 

Give it a try - you will see for yourself what I mean.

 

If you don't feel it, then practice it, because Tension

is a skill.

 

So then I thought, well what if I tense up the upper

back and torso first?

 

What I found was the Tension would radiate down

the arms into the hands (just like Pavel had described

in the Bench article) and it felt like I had a much

better grip on the cards.

 

Once I got a hang of this Radiant Tension, card

tearing became a lot easier for me, and I even began

experimenting with other techniques of card tearing

(there's lots of different ways to tear cards, like I

cover in my Card Tearing Ebook)

 

What's awesome is, if you are passionate about Card

Tearing or another Feat of Strength, once you get

good at applying Radiant Tension with your favorite

feat, you can apply it to the other feats. 

 

And you can also apply it to other more conventional

lifts.  So even if you are not big into something like

Squats, you can learn to apply this concept to your

Squatting.

 

After a while, you will even notice that once you

strengthen your skill of Tension Production, you won't

even think about creating tension - you'll just do it

when you need to.

 

So, in a way, Tearing Decks of Cards can help you

improve your squat.

 

All the best in your training,

 

Jedd

 

P.S.  If the emails become sporadic in the next few

days, I apologize ahead of time, but I will be

traveling to Ohio for Grip Sport Nationals and won't

have my regular computer access.  Wish me luck,

and I will have a full report next week.  And if you

want to pick up one of my most popular ebooks,

check out http://www.CardTearing.com.