[quote]brotzfrog10 wrote:
hi eric i have some balance questions for you. I understand the idea of balancing particular movement patterns such as horizontal pulling/pushing with equal or if need be greater volume, however what about factoring in equal load into the equation. Doing body weight chins and dips are easy enough to equal each other out however adding in there volume and weight along with horizontal pressing how easy would it be to do enough horizontal pulling to make the balance equal.[/quote]
If you check out my posting history, you?ll see a few comments I made on this the other night. Basically, intensity takes precedence over absolute load; in comparing different movements, you?re comparing apples and orange.
Yes, but only in a general sense. It?s one of the reasons we have strengths we leverage and weaknesses we train to address. Nobody is ever going to be perfectly balance; things fluctuate even in an acute sense.
It would depend on your strengths and weaknesses, obviously. Remember that shoulder flexion is trained significantly through benching movements as well, so you?re rarely able to consider a single joint by itself (i.e. curls, extensions, etc).
Sure; shoot it my way. I think it?s important to include some knee flexion work, preferably in the form of GHRs in the off-season. In season, knee flexion work has a tendency to tighten people up who are already doing a lot of sprinting. I?ve noticed it myself and with athletes with whom I work, and as I recall, Joe DeFranco has mentioned it, too. Overall hamstring length (and, in turn, knee health) is highly impacted by what you do with hip extension, as all the hamstrings cross the hip joint with the exception of the short head of the biceps femoris. Plus, strengthening the hamstrings at the hip will take some of the burden off of the quads at the knee, particularly with respect to deceleration of everyday movements.
[quote]one last topic was eccentric training. I feel that maybe perform eccentrics for certain movements every three mesocycles or so, (enough to reap the benefits but not enough to burn out) would be a good idea in order to stop the occurence of de-acceleration injuries that so often happen to athletes especially in the shoulder rotators and the hip extension as well as knee flexors(torque of throwing motion and slowing down after sprinting running after fly balls ala ken griffey jr) Is the frequence enough or maybe to much or am i off the mark with my observation
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I don?t feel that you need to separate things into different mesocyles; they?re all easily included in the same mesocycle if you plan properly. Eccentrics are actually good for deload weeks. Remember that deceleration is velocity-specific, too; the best way to train deceleration is to practice decelerating at higher speeds in CONTROLLED environments so that the body will subconsciously tolerate such challenges in an UNCONTROLLED environment by optimal body mechanics. There is still going to be some carryover from regular ol? training, though; maximal strength is the basis for everything, ya know?
I wouldn?t use Griffey as an example for much of anything other than the fact that the biggest risk factor for hamstrings strains is a previous history of hamstring strain.
