Tendon Training

I cant link to it because it is on a forum that you must register for, but here is a very part of a long thread talking about tendon strength. I found this post to be pretty much the conclusion of the thread. Theres a lot of good information in here so read up folks and stay injury free.

"Bodybuilders are know for their muscle strength not tendon, nor are strongmen. Back the statement of tendon lack of blood supply because the way body built. IMO, it takes a lot longer than 6-12 reps to really burn the tendon with ANY exercise. For ex: 1st stage: if you do bicep curl and get tired after 6-12 reps your muscle felt the burn and pumped up but the tendon itself is not yet there at that stage. 2nd stage: immediatedly after the curl pick up a lighter weight (or cable) and try to do wrist curl with your bicep still supporting the resistant (arm still bent 90 degree) wrist curl as fast as you can you will feel the lower bicep tendon burn near the elbow joint. Now when you can't wrist curl any more just hold the resistant isomerticly for more time. The bicep tendon will burn even more a long with the muscle of course. The 1st stage focus on the muscle while 2nd stage goes to the tendon on same group. I like to 2nd stage better I usually do just that. It feel like you are wrist curl while holding your opponent arm at 90 degree. This is one of the methods I use. The burn is right the bicep tendon and inner elbow depends on whther or not you turn or face it directly. If you can not wrist curl the weight the bicep can handle, then that is why you need to curl first if that was the case. Though I can generally wrist curl most of the weight my bicep can hold

Back to the tendon train philosophy and protocols. This is really tricky part. By observing all movements of life, I 've come to conclusion that tendon training can be done with either light weight or heavy weight. Depend on whether or not you use dynamic or isometric style. But it always comes down to one important objective: Making the tendon exhausted before it responds to training.

Light weight training observation: Watch a piano player runs on the keys fast and repeatedly for hours effortlessly. Now if you ever play it at a beginner, you know your fingers get tired quickly. What is in the finger but mostly tendon and ligament? You can have most amazing hand strength but that light movement tire it out in no time. Finger tendons are not there yet. The classical trained piano player in my band can bend nail 1st time he tried it. Same thing will happen to a beginner guitar player. While the pro can hold a difficult chords with easy and a guy with strongest grip can barely make any sound articulatedly. At times fingers cramped up bad. My conclusion: light motions at high speed and super hi-reps will evetually get your tendon too. In AW John B. use a light gripper and just go super fast for 100 of reps everyday to exhaustion work tendon too. A pro dancer who trains for years also get the body tendon powerful to look elegant while dancing. Especially in ballet and ice dancing. Lifting a partner with ease while moving and yet himself never built big. A bodybuilder can also lift a woman in the air but IMO he can never be elegant or graceful just because his tendon lack of the kind of power and coordination. The muscle power can also lift a human but it takes tendon too to make it look easy

This is only my observation thru the years. I will be back with heay weight training for tendon theory and slow motion training for tendon. Remember this is only a theory of mine... boring or not. It's Friday and I am hungry, I am out!"