Pellius is avoiding a summary on the program.
Is this correct: Do one set for 10-30 minutes, reps until burn and repeat until you can no longer even move.
That it?
Not avoiding just not able to describe because there was a strong mental component to it. Basile is right when he says that you have to think up news ways to get your muscles sore because they adapt rather quickly. If I wasn't sore the next day I knew I hadn't done much to stimulate an adaptive response. After I would do standard raises, the force reps, then negatives that would be enough. And when I say negatives I mean I would slowly lower my heel while pushing with both hands under the door frame. That lasted a while and I would get pretty sore the next day. But soon it wasn't enough. That's when I did rest pause after the negs. Holding the stretch position until I recovered enough to blast through a few more reps. Did this maybe three or four times. Then that stopped so instead of just resting during the stretch phase I would do burns. That really put the intensity factor up another level. While doing the burns I would be psyching myself for the big explosion for the full rep of the rep/pause phase (with help of course by pulling myself up -- a forced rep). When I say explosion again I wasn't blasting up. I was too weak and fatigue for that. It was just a way to concentrate so I can recruit as much fibers as possible. Jones talked about this. It was the pre stretch principle. As you are lower the weight just before full stretch you do a little bounce in the stretch position. It recruits more fibers that way. In Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" he spoke about how the hips precedes the punch. You don't move them in unison like closing a door. Your hips pops out first so your elbow starts behind the hip and then springs out while pushing forward with your rear foot. Just like throwing a baseball or swinging a bat. The batter doesn't just swing the bat with hips and bat rotating simultaneously. He takes a short step forward, rotates and throws his hips out first which builds tension in the pecs, rear delts, back; then the bat comes swinging.
I had to just keep adding intensity variables as my body adapted. That's when the "set" would go about ten minutes. It got to the point when after the rest pause/burns that's when I would say to myself, "OK, now it begins." Only at that point, after all those reps and burns, would I consider the real productive part coming. All that other stuff was almost like a warm up to get ready for the real heavy duty part.
So it kept going on and on like that. Figuring out new ways to get sore. Even when I was first writing about it on IronAge ten years ago I had trouble recalling the variables I used. Now it's been twenty years. But at that point I did know the feeling I would get in the muscle when I knew it would be sore the next day. It wasn't just that burning feeling we all get when we push ourselves. It almost felt like the the individual fibers were expanding. I'm not talking about the pump where your muscles get larger from the added blood supply, although I got that too, but a feeling of my muscle fibers straining and expanding. Until I got that super pump and near cramping feeling I would just keep going. After all that I did previously during that set I wasn't going to let it go all to waste by stopping before I reached DOMS territory. It was very taxing mentally and sometimes I had to take as much as 8 days off to be in the right frame of mind to put myself through this. But generally it was 5-7 days.
It's really not something I could write out as a routine. The individual really has to develop some kind of mind/muscle connection which is considered silly by most today.
It's certainly a bit silly to think that with all of this I still talking about the calf muscle. Maybe with Dennis Wolf I can understand. I don't think he'll ever win with those calves. Almost an anti calf now since they was regresses even more over the years.
