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Jocques Straap
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Although the video is obviously a marketing agent to attract new customers to Sports science lab, while taking several cheap shots at traditional exercise, it also makes several good points about athletic training.
Athletes train to be the best at their sport, not to be the strongest.
There is no replacement for the squat or the dead, but to think that squats and deads are all that is necessary to build a healthy functioning athlete is foolish.
Strength is the base, the bottom of the pyramid. Without a big base, the pyramid can not grow tall. Squats, deads, traditional barbell exercises, are great for building a strength base.
Once an athlete demonstrates the appropriate strength necessary for their sport, than further strength gains will not show significant improvement in their athleticism. Which is their goal.
If your goal is strength, then by all means squat and deadlift your heart out.
The problem with all this, is it's about making money. If you own a company called sports science lab, you obviously need to market your business towards unique, fresh, interesting exercise movements designed at improving amateur athletes at sports. In this day and age, every serious high school athlete is already in the weight room squatting. The serious high school athletes are your customer base, pretty much impossible to convince them to give you money, so you can help do what they are all ready doing on their own or with a high school coach.
Marketing is the devil. The guy in this video works with professional athletes. He obviously knows quite a bit about athletic training. This video is an example of him selling out to make some $.
I especially don't like:
The foot talk - "athletes are on their toes, not their heels." You shouldn't squat off your heels. This is wrong - A real athlete uses their entire foot. Knowing when weight should be back on the heel, and knowing when weight should be on the toe. Again, simply going against the grain, attempting to attract new customers.
Athletic specificity - developing all around athleticism is great. However, what's more important than their overall athleticism, is their specific athleticism in their position of sport. As your body learns new movements, or motor patterns, it loses or forgets old. A sprinter for example, needs his body thinking about one thing. Sprinting. Doing all these other drills will round our sprinter out as an athletes, but could take away from his sprinting.
Athletes train to be the best at their sport, not to be the strongest.
There is no replacement for the squat or the dead, but to think that squats and deads are all that is necessary to build a healthy functioning athlete is foolish.
Strength is the base, the bottom of the pyramid. Without a big base, the pyramid can not grow tall. Squats, deads, traditional barbell exercises, are great for building a strength base.
Once an athlete demonstrates the appropriate strength necessary for their sport, than further strength gains will not show significant improvement in their athleticism. Which is their goal.
If your goal is strength, then by all means squat and deadlift your heart out.
The problem with all this, is it's about making money. If you own a company called sports science lab, you obviously need to market your business towards unique, fresh, interesting exercise movements designed at improving amateur athletes at sports. In this day and age, every serious high school athlete is already in the weight room squatting. The serious high school athletes are your customer base, pretty much impossible to convince them to give you money, so you can help do what they are all ready doing on their own or with a high school coach.
Marketing is the devil. The guy in this video works with professional athletes. He obviously knows quite a bit about athletic training. This video is an example of him selling out to make some $.
I especially don't like:
The foot talk - "athletes are on their toes, not their heels." You shouldn't squat off your heels. This is wrong - A real athlete uses their entire foot. Knowing when weight should be back on the heel, and knowing when weight should be on the toe. Again, simply going against the grain, attempting to attract new customers.
Athletic specificity - developing all around athleticism is great. However, what's more important than their overall athleticism, is their specific athleticism in their position of sport. As your body learns new movements, or motor patterns, it loses or forgets old. A sprinter for example, needs his body thinking about one thing. Sprinting. Doing all these other drills will round our sprinter out as an athletes, but could take away from his sprinting.
