Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs (ADDENDUM)
Imagine we have two athletes who weight 75kg and 100kg and they both perform 5 pull-ups with extra 20kg attached using dip belt. What is their 1RM?
Tag: Strength Training
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs
Having established exercise 1RMs is of the utmost importance for programming and performing percent-based programs. Pretty much everything revolves around this performance metric.
Excellent Videos on Frans Bosch Speed, Power and Agility Drills
One of the few books that really got me thinking (and rethinking) was Strength Training and Coordination by Frans Bosch. I highly recommend reading this book, even if you do not agree with the author. Read more here
Novel Strength Metric: Video Interview With Robert Frederick
I stumbled on Robert Frederic by accident, probably through Facebook. So, after exchanging few messages with him, I decided to do a video interview and a Q&A regarding the “exertion load” metric, as well as his app. …
VBT, Heuristics and Prilepin
In this video I am discussing few ideas regarding velocity based training (VBT): 1) Potential research in velocity based training (VBT) domain (which will most likely become my PhD thesis) regarding the exhaustion-veloci…
Undulating Mixed Strength Program
This program represents “park bench” workout (see works by Dan John) and it is quite usable for someone putting the same emphasis on each exercise, while hitting wide rep ranges and avoiding boredom at the same time.…
Framework for Analyzing & Planning Strength Training: Progression vs Adaptation
I wanted to expand Framework for Analyzing & Planning Strength Training video with extra discussion on differences between progression and adaptation, which I also consider to be complementary pair, that are inter-relate…
Framework for Analyzing & Planning the Strength Training
What does this video attempts to do is to reconcile everything written about above using few very simple tools. That way, it represents very pragmatic and agile tool for planning and analyzing strength training programs.
Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 Forever Review
5/3/1 Forever is all about programming your total training; this includes mobility, jumps/med ball throws, you main lifts, supplemental, assistance work, conditioning and recovery. As always, each part is broken down and…
Anti-Glycolytic Training for Crossfit?
I accidentally stumbled upon Strongfirst For Crossfit article, which I urge you to read. Without going into the study design, although I would love to recommend the author to try to make the same analysis using Magnitude…
