Hi all.
I am trying to start a routine that is about half-composed of negative only (eccentric) exercises.

Maybe Im just not thinking straight but I am having a hard time coming up with exercises that can be done negative only without a spotter.

Anyone care to share what they can come up with?

Also, please dont include exotic or many Nautilus machines... my gym sucks.

Bonus points for dumbbell-only exercises

THANKS!

Presumably a routine half-composed of negatives would be half-composed of positives too?


Sorry, I just HAD to be the first smartarse to point that out. I was wondering this as well.

Yeah. Im giving the Colorado Experiment a whirl. While I dont expect to put on nearly as much muscle, it is a novel approach to lifting:
http://www.musclenet.com/coloradoexperiment.htm

In this, they stipulate one-set-to-failure and the following composition of exercises in a single day:
4/5 - negative only
1 - negative accentuated (raised with both arms, dropped with one)
4/5 - normal (negative/positive)

Trying to combine that with full body workouts with compound exercises (for maximum hormone secretion) and dumbbells (for stabilizers).

You're going to get too strong too fast, so unless your training partners are superman and the hulk, nobody will want to train with you. We have equipment that allows for very easy training partner assisted negatives of any exercise, but we're the only ones in the state of texas and, as far as I know, there are only 5 states that have such equipment.

That said, isolation movements plus no-dips/chins are prime candidates for this sort of work.

Yah weighted dips and pull ups seems like an excellent start. For dumbbell negatives, for chest you could do really heavy pull overs starting from the chest and moving back then dropping it. For shoulders I'd probably say that the safest method would be the smith machine but that doesn't say much for the stabilizers. Negative Squats would be great as well.