Hey T readers
Need help categorizing explosiveness. Strength speed, speed strength etc ?
[quote]Barholic wrote:
Hey T readers
Need help categorizing explosiveness. Strength speed, speed strength etc ?[/quote]
Some context would help. A lot.
Why are we categorizing it? Why isn’t “explosiveness” an acceptable category by itself? Are we talking about how to train to be more explosive or how to demonstrate/test explosiveness?
Basically, no clue what you’re really looking for, sorry. So I’ll say, explosiveness is power.
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Some context would help. A lot.
Why are we categorizing it? Why isn’t “explosiveness” an acceptable category by itself? Are we talking about how to train to be more explosive or how to demonstrate/test explosiveness?
Basically, no clue what you’re really looking for, sorry. So I’ll say, explosiveness is power.[/quote]
In 6 Weeks to Superhero, Christian Thibaudeau outlines different categories of strength, including speed strength, strength speed and more. I’m basically trying to figure out where explosive power fits in if it’s not a category by it self.
More specific explosive movements from a dead position, like squat jumps, push ups etc where one isn’t using the stretch reflex.
[quote]Barholic wrote:
In 6 Weeks to Superhero, Christian Thibaudeau outlines different categories of strength, including speed strength, strength speed and more. I’m basically trying to figure out where explosive power fits in if it’s not a category by it self. [/quote]
In that program “explosive” is one of the categories of exercises. It’s basically bodyweight-only plyometric movements. Anything in what he called the “strength-speed” category would also be an explosive lift, as that’s where the Olympic lift variations would go.
Anything done from a deadstop would be what I’d consider “starting strength” (no, not the program.) There might be a more technical name for it, but I’m actually drawing a blank.
Lee Boyce talked about the concept here: