I’ve noted that some prominent internet bodybuilding personalities stating that a very slow tempo causes more muscle damage than a regular tempo. First, is this true and second should isolation exercises be performed this way for powerlifters? Obviously, I would just perform my closely related powerlifting assistance exercises at a normal tempo.
I would stick to a controlled eccentric and fast concentric for both strength and hypertrophy improvements.
I am a couple months into the Bodybuilding II template, and having never trained in this fashion before, I find I have the urge to slow the eccentric down more than I would for strength-based templates, but I have no real solid basis for thinking that. I would say I have defaulted more or less to a 3-1-0 tempo by default, whereas when training for strength, I control the eccentric as well but more to the tune of 1-0-0 type tempo.
I guess what my restless, pedantic mind really wants to know is, what tempo would you recommend for iso work on your bodybuilding templates? What about the main compound movements?