Hey Christian,
I know this info was either in a past article or in your book, but I’ll ask it again…just to be sure. Could you rank the highest power output exercises that an athlete can perform. I think I saw it somewhere that Power snatches from blocks is numberone…and so on and so on. Thanks for the info and I love your “magical”, new training device the glider. Awesome GPP and strength building form of training. Cheers.
At equal relative effort (95-100% of maximum was the tested value) here’s the order:
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Second pull of the snatch (we can thus extrapolate snatch from the hang or snatch from blocks)
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Second pull of the clean (we can thus extrapolate clean from the hang and clean from the blocks)
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Jerk
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Snatch from floor
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Clean from floor
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Squat and deadlift
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Bench press
*** HOWEVER these were calculated from a competition 1RM. I personally found that peak power occurs between 45-65% on the powerlifts and between 85-90% on the olympic lifts. From my experiementations, speed squats at 45-65% have a power output as high as a max snatch, clean or jerk.