Excellent Instructor. Worth every penny I paid. He spent 4 hrs with me instructing on all of the basic barbell lifts.
Check out the dead lifting technique videos from StartingStrength.com
Interesting article:
and 4 more after following links in the article.
Anybody try targeting slow-twitch?
Very Interesting. The problem is I donāt have access to weights with Covid. Cases are currently climbing at a rapid rate in my location, and yours as well.
Itās ok here in Sac county, but doesnāt really matter Iāve got kettlebells and bro-in-law two doors down with full barbell set and dumbbells up to 90lbs.
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You married up.
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Not easy being an endurance athlete in a family of power athletes!
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No, although my first thought is that the endurance training we do already does thatā¦Im just thinking it throughā¦so most of out hybrid fibres will be tuned to slow twitch alreadyā¦lifting long, light and slowā¦is that going to increase muscle density like heavy lifting, probably not, isnt that supposed to be more of a hypertrophy activity?
Looks like a hypertrophy phase to me. According to Bompa (periodization of strength for sports) you should train your strength in the gym first (incl hypertrophy if appropriate). Strength-endurance should be sport specific. Canāt see how even 50 squats in a row comes close to 10 thousands of revolutions/steps/rows that you do in one bout of endurance exercise.
Hey Andrew was just mentioning to a friend yesterday that a workout, upper or lower does not have to be intense, long or too taxing to have good benefits. I can fit in my workouts in anytime because they arenāt Draining.I can not maintain heavy and intense lifting and Train or ride hard at the same time , to much energy drain , eating , and time in recovery mode. i ride Single track and Road, and just looking to keep my upper body from fatiguing on Rides.
Haha! My roommate is a powerlifter and rugby player. In between the ridiculous challenges, unsuccessful attempts at explaining the finer details of each otherās sports, and somewhat spectacular dietary habits, I think weād make a great sitcom.
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all the males in this family can or have thrown 90+mph fastballs so Iām at a bit of a disadvantageā¦
anything to produce more red meat! (aka slow twitch or FOG mitochondria machinery)
Must make for interesting family snowball fights in winter.
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Has Coach Chad given any recommendations regarding where to fit strength training in the training plans, I am thinking he has and I am not finding it
Two blog posts worth looking at, look at the section Timing Strength Training Within Your Season in this article:
and the FAQ section here:
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thanks, really appreciate it
FWIW Iām masters 55+ and weight lifting 3 days a week leave my legs tired. For that reasons I only do more lifting during the off-season, which for me is the summer months (June-August). During this part of my annual training plan, I can manage one maintenance sweet spot workout and the rest are easy zone 2 / aerobic endurance.
I am 46 and I am finding myself in a similar situation in that when I do lift or do plyo I end up in a position where efforts in the sweet spot and above are really impacted and I canāt always hit numbers. I come from a strength training background but the fact that cycling just relatedly impacts the same muscle groups makes for a difficult balancing act
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I think it makes a lot of sense to take 2-3 months every year to focus on weight lifting. Definitely need to reduce cycling. Just started my off-season and for this initial block established a baseline at 6 hours cycling and 3 hours lifting.