Tendon Maxxing:
** Your tendons decide your ceiling, your muscles **
- The mechanism:
Tendon ignores junk volume. It responds to load magnitude and time under load. Heavy, slow, held — that’s the whole game.
- Heavy Slow Resistance:
The strongest evidence there is. Take your main lifts, run 3s up / 3s down, full range, 3–4 sets, progressing 15RM → 6RM over weeks. No new exercises. Slowing the lift and loading it is the tendon work.
- Isometrics:
The stiffness builder. Hard holds, 30–45s, in lengthened positions — support holds, paused bottom positions, dead hangs, L-sits. Almost no eccentric damage, so you can train them often.
- Train the weak links first:
Elbows, wrists, shoulders, knees. For a tweaked tendon: don’t grind full range. Rebuild from partial positions with paused holds, then extend the range over weeks. Depth is earned, not forced.
- The one real supplement
15g hydrolyzed collagen + 200mg vitamin C, 30–60 min before training. Aminos peak in the blood, load directs them to the tissue. It resensitizes every ~6–8h, so you can dose twice. Everything else is noise.
- Drop the painkillers:
Solid evidence they blunt collagen synthesis and kill the adaptive response. You’re sabotaging the exact tissue you’re building. Discomfort is information — painkillers delete the signal.
Note:
frequency > session quality —
Everyone hunts for the perfect session. But tendon resensitizes every ~6–8h, so the same total work split into shorter, more frequent exposures can drive more collagen synthesis than one long grind.
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