ok, inspired by this thread:
http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=1948162
It begs the question. Would doing a two week over-reaching cycle be good for an athlete preparing for training camp like 2 weeks out? Also, would they want to train explosively with sprints/jumps during this period?
Some benefits - simulates training camp conditions (won’t hear athlete bitching about “I’m sooo sore”), strength rebound benefit, toughness, increase in work capacity.
Some detriments - not peaking at the right time. Possibly better programming to prepare for the season.
Because last year, I did something similar. 2 weeks out from training camp I finished my super-accumulation cycle slightly modified. When training camp rolled around, everyone else by day 2 was practically crying from the two-a-days. With superior intelligence (not trying way too hard in high CNS off ice activities), nutrition, recovery, and preparation, I ended up skating circles around everyone by the end of the week. Co-incidence?
Another note - I did no speed training nor plyometric jumps of any kind. I played ultimate frisbee for like 90 minutes on monday of both weeks I think though. (my performance in week one and week two were severely different! ha)
So, would a program like this work incorporating speed training and jumping along with regression in lifting? Hmmmmm
well I’m glad to hear that my thread has inspired you!!
I would look into this article it has pretty much what you are looking for and it’s a good read too…www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kelly16.htm
Hopefully it will help answer most of your questions. I thought I had some other articles that were similar to this I’ll put them up if I can find them
-Charming
Thanks for the URL. The thing that makes me wonder is the risk for injury. If your sprinting form sucks or you screw up a jump, in a fatigued state, who knows what’s going to happen to your muscles? Like what is the chance of tearing or pulling something?
With sprinting and jumping you wouldn’t likely be going for intraset fatigue, you’d just exhaust your work capacity. In other words, you’d still take full recoveries (or nearly full) between sets of sprints or jumps, so you wouldn’t be “tired” in the sense that you’re still huffing and puffing from the last set, but you wouldn’t be able to go as fast because of accumulated fatigue. I don’t think there’s that much chance for injury.
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
Thanks for the URL. The thing that makes me wonder is the risk for injury. If your sprinting form sucks or you screw up a jump, in a fatigued state, who knows what’s going to happen to your muscles? Like what is the chance of tearing or pulling something?[/quote]
IMO with sprinting there is a chance of injuries occurring and this, from my experience, comes with not working up to max effort or near max effort attempts compounded with any serious muscle imbalances you have (mine were hip flexors). As long as you have a solid balanced foundation in the gym, warm up and stretch afterwards your chance of injury is reduced.