I have a book called "Explosive Power and Jumping Ability" by two eastern block triple jump coaches. The exercise catalouge is full with goofy stuff. But they consider these things auxillary. You train your sport, you add the real stuff (sprints,jumps, plyos, throws, change of direction stuff, barbell lifts, pull ups)....and then you may consider adding low intensity-high rep physical therapy like exercises. Or even skip them. They only insist on high volume - lower intesity hops, bare footed on convex and concave surfaces in the early prep phase.
Exactly they're auxiliary you don't lift heavy everyday through the course of a season and expect to perform... It's not just about being strong it's also injury prevention...they not only lifting weights ...they do that and then go practice for 2 hours ..they not gym bros lol
Finding your content was like the Allegory of the Cave for me. I legitimately contemplated buying drew Mcduffie’s program a year ago because I thought I needed something position or Sport specific.
Hey will. I train a lot of athletes and i use some of these exercises but they are always accessories or a secondary lift to help with a key lift. When you have sports that require you to have a focus on the frontal plane, transverse or even sports that are multi directional like most of team sports, you have to use a lot of these exercises. Not like they show them but a very simplified version of them like a Lateral Lunge or a heavy cable rotation, where you can load the sh*t out of the movement. I feel like having a good periodization of the main lifts (Squats and DLs) and adding these kind of accessories for specific needs of each athlete/position/sport is the best combination you can have for a good LTAD and a well balanced performance for elites.
How do you find the giant sets compare to typical set/rep schemes, and how do you select target reps? I'm doing them myself currently and I like them + am seeing improvement but curious if you could go more in depth
Newbie here! "Shoulder strength is synonymous with shoulder stability." Does that apply to Olympic lifts and calisthenics skills (handstand Push Ups, Planchet, etc)? Feel like I'm missing something! Thanks for all the knowledge bombs, Hoss!
Any tips regarding strength training for people in the military? I am in the U.S. Army (Infantry) and I was curious about what you’d recommend. We have mandatory “PT” (Running & lifting) that hardly does anything to make soldiers stronger. Thanks for the great content
Former Infantry Marine here, used to run into the same problems you do now maybe I could give a few pointers. It would really depend on what we did for PT that morning. Some days were absolute killers, others were easy and little to nothing. But I followed a good S&C program that elicited 3-4 days of weight training, and 2-3 days of aerobic work. If it was a brutal PT session, I'd either just chill out for the day or do aerobic work later in the day (assault bike for example). Then on days it was easy or we had nothing I would weight train and also get some aerobic work in after. The key is just be able to adapt as necessary to your schedule. Obviously you can't just skip out on PT so, just be willing make changes as necessary. The way Will trains is something I think would be great for being an Infantryman, only thing I'd add is maybe a bit more aerobic work for your PT runs/ ruck marches etc Hope that helps
If I don't notice any grip issues, should I continue deadlifting without straps. For RDLs, since I'm always going 8+ reps, I use them but for conventional deadlifts, I don't notice my grip failing on me.
The weight room is GPP for athletes. I don’t know why that’s so hard to understand for some people in the S&C community. Trying to use the weight room for ‘dynamic correspondence’ or SPP is hogwash. Let the athletes play and practice their sport to get good at their sport. Use S&C to strengthen and condition them.
Yes and no distance running is great aerobic capacity training but there are much better modalities to train that for a water polo player… I know you referenced the weight room and my example was aerobic capacity but the logic remains the same. S&C is gpp work but you have to take into account all the variables to select the most relevant form of training but yes horizontal pushing strength is horizontal pushing strength, humans are not that different physiology is physiology the bench press will train that the best across all athletes
If you do try to learn them yourself just make sure you have appropriate equipment, you learn how to bail out of the lift, and you eliminate any barriers to potentially doing so. If you're embarrassed that you have no idea how to do the lift and reluctant to drop the weight in a commercial gym, don't try teaching yourself in that setting. Try getting form checks from reputable sources before going too heavy as the tendency for stronger people is to get it up with strength and that becomes harder to correct as you progress.
Your content is gold, seriously compared to other's who were real at one point and now all they do is sell beard oil and grippers and such bull crap. Strength training with a barbell is far superior to functional training period. God bless you and I bid you peace.
He said it in the video but S&C indirectly improves sports performance. Getting stronger, faster and more conditioned probably won’t improve your jumpshot or ability to throw a football but being able to move faster deal with contact better perform at higher intensities for longer durations will help any and all athletes competing in sport
Just so they are more injury resistant and don’t have to take seasons off because they busted a shoulder during a tennis match from swinging the racket to hard because they are weak
Not the same topic but its like the crew of people who are anti Olympic lift. They wanna say that a medball throw or weighted jump replaces or replicates a clean or snatch. Then also say that cleans take to long to get a good enough stimulus but also say a 12 LB medball or 40 kilo trap bar jump does create the desired stimulus. If you think a 40 kilo trap bar jump does the job then a 70 kilo hang power clean does more than the job getting a stimulus to drive adaptation.
It seems that these "new age" S&C coaches want to reinvent the wheel. Sport science was figured out in the 60/70s by the Soviets. Whether you like the block training method or not the main take away is you need high levels of stress to get high levels of adaptation. No single leg slide board DB lunge will ever replace a good set of 5 in the back squat because the stress levels created are so low they don't disrupt homeostasis.
These schools do everything in their power to win. They have dedicated dietitians, sport psychologists, rehab specialists, strength coaches who spend their entire lives mastering their field. Colleges used to train in the style you mentioned: cleans, squats, bench, pure strength focus. Now they’ve advanced. The movements are more complex im not smart enough to explain why they’re better but they are. Period. Seriously you think about how much money these schools invest to win, think about the obsessiveness coaches have to gain even a 1% competitive edge. You really think they’d ALL get something as paramount as strength and conditioning wrong?! Just because you (and I) dont understand it doesn’t mean we have any right to shit on it.
I understand that the dynamic correspondence argument is flawed and barbell is king for absoulte strength and power, but do you also reject the argument that such exercises can be useful as a corrective exercise? I healed a nasty lower back injury doing such exercises, when no amount of regressed squats/deadlifts helped.
