What is best for explosive power?

[dzulboy]

halo or cheque drops or anadrol or all three if you want a short life

 

[princeton]

olympic lifting is not bad for sports, its just not the best . Its very complicated to teach right and not any people can do it very well. I see a lot of athletes getting injured or just not doing it right. there are better ways to get faster and quicker.

I can power clean more than most of the kids on my team but I never do it. I just have explosive power from other lifts.

 

[kiloamp]

GPP is general physical preparedness and SPP is special physical preparedness. Lots of info on each of those in the articles at elitefts, and also in the training forum.


It's not periodization, but in a way it is. It's self-periodizing. The idea is that you will be able to train at 100% of your max week after week without overtraining if you constantly switch up your ME movements. So in essence, it's periodized into 1-week mini-cycles.

Yes, the terms GPP and SPP have been around for a long time. I remember reading of them and periodization in ' The Soviet Sports Review' back in the early 80s and even then they were well developed methods of training that had been established over years of research with thousands of athletes. And what you are describing is exactly what periodization is: breaking cycles down into microcycles (1-2 weeks) and combining those with larger mesocycles (4-6 weeks) and combining those with still larger macrocycles (4-6 months) and if your really good, building into large macrocycles (2-4 years.) The common misconception is that periodization necessarily applies to intensity and training volume of the athlete's workload. The Bulganian's were maxing out every workout for multiple workouts a day but also had training cycles they worked through. Of course, this is a subject that is like religion and politics, you're never going to agree on.

Here's a link to an article from the elitefts site that touches (lightly) on the subject.

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/TomMyslinski.pdf

 

[kiloamp]

olympic lifting is not bad for sports, its just not the best . Its very complicated to teach right and not any people can do it very well. I see a lot of athletes getting injured or just not doing it right. there are better ways to get faster and quicker.

I can power clean more than most of the kids on my team but I never do it. I just have explosive power from other lifts.

Well the real test is time. If all of a sudden everyone wins using this method, people will be flooding into those seminars trying to figure what they are doing. On the other hand, if the athletes who are on the program don't produce, it will fad away like so many other training methods. You are young so you probably don't remember the dominance of the 'Soviet sports machine'. Well the reason every one and his brother has developed an adaptation of their methods is because they worked. And the cornerstone of their strength training was Olympic lifting.

 

[slobberknocker]

Yes, the terms GPP and SPP have been around for a long time. I remember reading of them and periodization in ' The Soviet Sports Review' back in the early 80s and even then they were well developed methods of training that had been established over years of research with thousands of athletes. And what you are describing is exactly what periodization is: breaking cycles down into microcycles (1-2 weeks) and combining those with larger mesocycles (4-6 weeks) and combining those with still larger macrocycles (4-6 months) and if your really good, building into large macrocycles (2-4 years.) The common misconception is that periodization necessarily applies to intensity and training volume of the athlete's workload. The Bulganian's were maxing out every workout for multiple workouts a day but also had training cycles they worked through. Of course, this is a subject that is like religion and politics, you're never going to agree on.

Here's a link to an article from the elitefts site that touches (lightly) on the subject.

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/TomMyslinski.pdf

I agree with all that. It's true that much of the Westside training draws heavily on the sports science of the former Soviet Union.

 

[MMAfighter]

what gear is best for the kind of explosive power you would need for Mixed Martial Arts competition i.e. an Octagon fight? am a super-heavyweight, so i don't have to worry about getting too big and going up a weight class.

 

[Sebass67]

I just gave someone negative karma...anyone care to guess who????

 

[mongo67]

Plyometrics is definately the way to go, trust me it works..incorperate core training into your gym workout as well, not just abs, but the inner ab muscles as well..After time you will be able to generate power from your trunk/core and this will really help...Of course the excersises you do will have to be sport specific, attempt to mimic the movements that you are doing on the field/court...As far as what gear will help...you'll have to ask the vets that one.., but I know that the above mentioned training techniques are shit hot..they are used at the national level athletes...hope this helps

Peace

 

[kiloamp]

I just gave someone negative karma...anyone care to guess who????

Man I hope it wasn't me. I'm still looking for a Olympic lifting routine for you.

 

[uncle fester]

hi all... although im new at this id check out some of lou simmons training philosophies...west side barbell....hope it might help