Are there dangers of doing eccentric muscle work?
A. While negative weight work has been around for years, particularly in the body-building realm, no one had researched its effects on the muscles to the lengths the inventors of the eccentron have. You know that sore, stiff feeling you get a couple days after working out hard, or the first ski day of the season? That mainly comes from the eccentric portion of your recent activity. So it was believed that too much eccentric work would result in muscle damage. Instead, thanks to the cutting-edge research of the eccentron inventors, they demonstrated that consistent eccentric muscle work delivers huge benefits not easily acquired by any other activity. The key is that it must be performed with a gradual ramp-up. So there may be muscle soreness the first 2 or 3 weeks of eccentric work, but once the muscle has fully adapted, you can work at your maximum level with minimal or no muscle soreness. By following the eccentron’s pre-set programs, the user becomes properly accustomed to the eccen