Hypertrophy During Power Phases

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As I’m interested in training for athletes and power, I wonder if using training phases (accumulation, intensification and realization) is the only way to go or something else could be used, especially for intermediates?

John Meadows for instance said in that regard that you “can’t ignore hypertrophy, and should use either 1 week power 2 weeks hypertrophy or 2 weeks power 1 week hypertrophy”.

  1. Would it be possible to use both in the same session?

  2. Would alternating 1 week power 1 week hypertrophy work?

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Athlete Pendulum (end of article)

Or (33 minutes in)

Especially the latter for those athletes that haven’t touched weights that much.

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@aldebaran did you notice that a two week pendulum was mentioned in the article?

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Yes, yes, thank for that! He mentions strength/power or strength/hypertrophy. I’ll work with this, I really like the two week pendulum. Obviously with an athlete you’re not going to do a bro split even in off-season. So I guess I’ll experiment with the strength/power one but with the strength weeks being a mix of strength and hypertrophy.

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With athletes I typically use 3 whole-body workouts per week, which are for strength and performance and one gap workout which is where I put hypertrophy work.

i’ve also used a 3 weeks performance / 1 week hypertrophy approach but I still prefer the first option.

Another option that I have not tried, but should work very well is a combo of both:

Weeks 1 - 3
Three whole body workouts for strength/performance + 1 gap workout for hypertrophy

Week 4
Three hypertrophy workouts (possibly push/pull/legs) and one whole-body strength/performance workout.

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