There are two parts of a rep when you are doing an exercise. If you think about the way taht you do a bench press you raise the bar off of your chest and then at the top you let the weight down again. The letting down is known as the negative portion of the repetition.
If you focus on the negative portion of the repetition in some workouts you will make much better gains as it is another way to shock the muscle. The following link lings to an article that talks about this very thing.
In essence the best way to do a negative is to use the same weight as you normally would, do the raising of the weight the same way as usualy but in the lowering poertion control the weight more and double the time that it takes to lower the weight.
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