Hi!
So while I’ve at least thought that I’m mainly interested in powerlifting for most of the time I’ve been training, I’ve recently been bitten by the bodybuilding bug. I’ve felt freshly excited about my training (Bodybuilding I) and I’ve finally been able to lose some weight, while maybe even adding some muscle, at least in the muscle groups that don’t get that much attention in powerlifting-focused training. Also have been adding weight on a lot of the exercises, which I do still care about to some extent!
So while there are no lengthened partials programmed in Bodybuilding I, I am planning to do Bodybuilding II (which I already bought btw) when I’m done with it, and am also just generally curious. It might be because I’m not a native English speaker, but there are two ways I could possibly interpret the lengthened partial programming as it’s written - the keep going until you can no longer complete 25% of the ROM part.
1) I’ll do reps until the part of the ROM I can’t complete gets up to 25%. In other words, I’ll stop once I’m completing 75% or less of the set.
2) I keep going for as long as I can complete 25% or more of the rep.
At first, the second option made more sense to me, but the explanation in the BB2 pdf makes it sound more like the first one. I don’t know how elbow flexion is measured, lol. I also guess how much past failure either option is depends on the resistance curve of the lift.