
Hey i was kind of slow and Mr. Cressey probably won’t answer my questions, so i decided to put this here and hope someone says something about the plan i outlined at the bottom of this. If anyone can answer any questions i asked along the way please feel free to help ![]()
Wow perfect answer, thank you for taking the time.
Sry about being so sloppy and saying hips when i really meant the posterior chain. You knew what i was talking about though.
This gives me things to do (alot of the suggested auxiliary stuff i never did) as well as new info on how to get better.
I like the two categories, the problem is you can over time gradually go from one category to the other. I just noticed that i probably did from what you said. Seems even logical a year of powerlifting can put you from category 1 to 2. That’s what happend to me. I used to be in the first category until i got injured very often. I now have a very bad knee. (got tackled with the shoulderblades on the knee and the doc said what happend is that a muscle [would you be so kind to tell me which one it probably was?] got hurt and went into relaxed state) Therefore the muscle on top was pulling my knee cap up and that made my knee swell badly. I still get that effect when squatting heavy, trying to play basketball or even walking up steps).
I read some Dave Tate stuff on here about what to do once you developed a bad knee. I am trying it out and especially the band pull (one end on doorhandle other end behind knee with the purple band) seems to help. Could you take a guess at what else would probably help?
I just want to know one more thing.
What do you think about vertical periodisation (like Waterbury does) to take care of the repeated bout effect?
Seems to me like that’s kind of what westside does too just a little different. Waterbury likes to do more hypertrophy work than what i see in typical westside training parameters, but than again there is so many possibilities within that system that a majority just does a lot of isolation type ht work anyway.
I still got more i am sorry, but you are just too damn good and i need your opinion on this:
Would it be a good idea to address my weak points and use a vertical perio approach with 3 macrocycles each concentrating on one thing and trying to put others on hold like Siff, Verhoshansky and Zatsiorsky and others suggest?
For example during the first 4 weeks something like 20 sessions. (I built up the work capacity for that over the last year and with lots of prehab work i get no problems going at it for 16 out of 20 weeks)
14 of those HT with changing parameters from an easy and short 5X5 or a hard 4 x 12 to an extremely hard 10x3.
Next 4 weeks alot more maximal strength work and some speed work while maintaining ht.
The last 4 weeks a little less sessions, lower volume because of dropping isolation work. Incorparating bands and getting some more speed work done. Still with something like 5-6 maximum strength sessions but ht only like once a week.
Within the 4 weeks i would always try to get started slowly and increase intensity relative volume during week 2 and lowering it a little on week 3, so that i can set some new records. Then the last week ist always tapering off
( because it is easy to underrecover ![]()
) and transition to new phase. I will only do 2 hard sessions during that week on what i want to develope in that phase.
I wasn’t going to ask all this but i much likely won’t get too many chances to talk to coaches like the ones on T-Mag. My coaches over in Germany have always been really bad and so i started educating myself through reading literature and also things all over the internet. This place is mecca though ![]()
I hope i get this answered. I wouldn’t mind if any other coach answerded it either, but Cressey, Tate, Simmons (yeah right like he is ever even on here), CT, CW would be the ones i would kill to get them to answer [guess CP won’t answer since he doesn’t even take the weekend warrior type any longer spreading rumors hehe :-)] and while i’m at it i also love [note: in a nonsexual positive T-Man way] reading JB, Atomic Dog, King, De Franco (now let’s hope he doesn’t sue me for stealing the words vertical periodization) and others i propably forget right now.
Tanks again Coach Cressey, you are the man! I am not saying that to get you to answer by the way because even if you don’t it remains a fact. Hey did you move up the USAPL list? Where can i see it anyways. Oh ok it’s on the USAPL websites.