This is my personal fave
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Make a sandbag. 50-100lbs.
Carry, walk, throw, squat, repeat. Carry it up a hill. Throw it in the air and catch it. Whatever works you.
I just finished making my sandbag last week so I’ll be trying this out soon.
[quote]gorangers0525 wrote:
^ Which is why I added but what do I know. It’s more of an opinion, that could easily be wrong. To me high rep olympic lifts seem more like training than conditioning FOR training.[/quote]
Not to be a dick, but how so? It’s training and not conditioning for training? Having a loaded barbell in your hands, keeping it there for an extended period of time, and performing a series of complex movements is a whole lot more specific to a barbell strength and power sport than running up a hill or pushing/pulling a sled.
Using your logic, springing and weighted drags, carries, and pushes would just be training for running, not conditioning for bringing up the powerlifts. What would be the point of conditioning at all unless you were just doing squats, benches, and deadlifts?
Again, not to be a dick, just curious as to where your logic is coming from.
[quote]Sutebun wrote:
Make a sandbag. 50-100lbs.
Carry, walk, throw, squat, repeat. Carry it up a hill. Throw it in the air and catch it. Whatever works you.
I just finished making my sandbag last week so I’ll be trying this out soon.[/quote]
Or just find a rock even.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
[quote]gorangers0525 wrote:
^ Which is why I added but what do I know. It’s more of an opinion, that could easily be wrong. To me high rep olympic lifts seem more like training than conditioning FOR training.[/quote]
Not to be a dick, but how so? It’s training and not conditioning for training? Having a loaded barbell in your hands, keeping it there for an extended period of time, and performing a series of complex movements is a whole lot more specific to a barbell strength and power sport than running up a hill or pushing/pulling a sled.
Using your logic, springing and weighted drags, carries, and pushes would just be training for running, not conditioning for bringing up the powerlifts. What would be the point of conditioning at all unless you were just doing squats, benches, and deadlifts?
Again, not to be a dick, just curious as to where your logic is coming from.[/quote]
You’re right, and I know you aren’t being a dick. I just thought that would be very taxing on your body by conditioning lifting with lifting. It almost seems more like assistance, but it seems like I’m very wrong lol. I’m too used to watching people at the gym doing high rep Olympic lifts with shitty form and injuring themselves in some way, but I see now that it could be helpful if done correctly. I’ll try not to post about things I know little about.
OP, ever tried weighted carries or tire flips? sets of box jumps maybe?
I like these because of added training economy, jumps and tire flips improve explosiveness, weighted carries help grip.
I don’t run because I effing hate it. I was doing sprints a few months ago and pulled my hammy, so I still don’t feel like running lol.
Plenty of options out there, try em and see how they feel on your knee and use that for now. However, I’d pay attention to the first part of Storm’s first post.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
In my experience, knee tendonitis is usually casued by lifting all wrong or having terrible running technique. Both of those problems can be helped by doing soft tissue work and getting your form in check. Sprinting is one of the most basic skills a human has. If something is keeping you from doing that, you need to fix it before progressing in something more complicated like loading up a barbell and putting it on your back.
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Why let a bum knee dictate your training/progress if you can fix it, at least somewhat?
Last year my left knee hurt so bad to squat or deadlift I had to stop for a couple months. I was still able to run hill sprints but the knee couldn’t take the flexing. Once I rested it - no problems. Seems my patella tendon and quad tendon was giving me issues.
Now I have an issue w/ my right elbow (tennis elbow). It doesn’t hurt to bench at the moment, but is significantly worse the day after benching. I’ve been going too heavy too often and I think that is the cause.
Like Wendler has said, find a way to train around injuries if possible. If you can’t train a certain lift - then take a break from that movement. It won’t take long for your strength to come back.