[quote]Mr. Zero wrote:
Coach,
What are your thoughts on magnetic underlays to aid with recovery?
Thanks for your time[/quote]
I have no experience with them so I can’t comment. But I can tell you that I will never try them if that means anything to you.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
[quote]Mr. Zero wrote:
Coach,
What are your thoughts on magnetic underlays to aid with recovery?
Thanks for your time[/quote]
I have no experience with them so I can’t comment. But I can tell you that I will never try them if that means anything to you.[/quote]
Thank You.
Coach:
I will be in southern Orange County, CA in a month - would you happen to know of any good warehouse gyms and or coached facilities where I could get in a few workouts and/or Olympic lifting coached?
Thanks!
M
Assuming the top lockout position of a push press or standing overhead press. What is it called when you lift it even higher, similar to a shrug in the top position. If I practice this once or twice a week for strength and hypertrophy, might it help my overhead squat(shoulders weak link, mobility is fine)? Is it useful for anything else? It feels good when I do it.
[quote]toots27mkc wrote:
Assuming the top lockout position of a push press or standing overhead press. What is it called when you lift it even higher, similar to a shrug in the top position. If I practice this once or twice a week for strength and hypertrophy, might it help my overhead squat(shoulders weak link, mobility is fine)? Is it useful for anything else? It feels good when I do it.[/quote]
I personally call it an overhead shrug. I included it in one of my oldest article. It’s a drill I did often when I was competing in olympic lifting, either on its own or at the end of a snatch or jerk set.
CT,a very broad question but i was wondering what type of training do you do with hockey players in the off season?
Thank you answering my previous questions Christian.
I have got the hang of the high snatch pull , but my clean pull is lacking in power and height.
Are the second pulls any different in the two lifts?
Also what are some good exercises for strengthening the second pull.
[quote]coolusername wrote:
CT,a very broad question but i was wondering what type of training do you do with hockey players in the off season?[/quote]
It is in fact very broad. So broad that I can’t really answer it because it will depend on the player. Some players have more time than other to train in the off-season (I’ve had athletes with as many as 24 weeks to train in their off-season and some as little as 8 weeks depending on their season).
Some require more emphasis on explosiveness, others on strength. Some require a lot of energy systems work, others don’t.
Some are advanced in their physical development, others are at the beginning of theirs.
So I do not have ONE method of training hockey players.
[quote]decimation wrote:
Thank you answering my previous questions Christian.
I have got the hang of the high snatch pull , but my clean pull is lacking in power and height.
Are the second pulls any different in the two lifts?
Also what are some good exercises for strengthening the second pull. [/quote]
The wide grip in the snatch pull makes it mechanically easier to have a greater range of motion. Not to mention that in reality you have to pull a snatch much higher than a clean.
If doing a snatch high pull already, I don’t see the need to do aq clean high pull. For the clean I would focus on low pulls (explosive pull to a level between the navel and bottom of rib cage).
Thank you for answering my question.
Would using a heeled shoe improve my lifts? I am particularly short 5 5 1/2 with average limb length i.e. fingertips at lower pocket level. I can squat low fairly easily anyway.
I wasn’t too upset about it but today when I tested my push press after 3 months I was surprised to see it hadn’t really gone up at all. I remembered that in the past when you stopped focusing on bench and did lots of shoulder pressing your bench went up but this did not work the other way around. I guess that’s what happened considering what happened today, even though my (dumbbell) bench press has gone up well. Do you know why there is a strong transfer from shoulder pressing to bench but not the other way around?
Also do you notice a decent transfer from dumbbell benching to barbell benching?
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
I wasn’t too upset about it but today when I tested my push press after 3 months I was surprised to see it hadn’t really gone up at all. I remembered that in the past when you stopped focusing on bench and did lots of shoulder pressing your bench went up but this did not work the other way around. I guess that’s what happened considering what happened today, even though my (dumbbell) bench press has gone up well. Do you know why there is a strong transfer from shoulder pressing to bench but not the other way around?
Also do you notice a decent transfer from dumbbell benching to barbell benching?[/quote]
im not CT but i would assume that it’s because the front delts have a higher involvement in the bench press than the chest does in the push press. I guess it’s kinda like saying that a triceps isolation movement will help you add weight to your bench press, but not the other way around because the main emphasis in the bench press is on the pecs. I dunno, i find it hard to get my point across. Go ahead CT.
CT,
I’m considering starting advanced GVT as a follow up to I,BODYBUILDER before your new programs come out. Coach Polquin recommends a 40x0 tempo and works a greater range of fiber types along with more sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, yet wouldn’t a 20x0 tempo be more in compliance with the perfect rep and as a consequence be better for working the fast twitch fibers? Basically, I’m confused as to the ups and downs of both and am looking for a clear cut answer.
CT, I was just wondering the basic idea behind 1-3 ratchet sets are as used in IBB?
The FSR idea is explained in your Perfect Rep article, the max force sets I found an explanation in this forum, and capacity ramping is self-explanatory. I couldn’t find anything on 1-3 ratchet sets (did find something on explosive/max effort contrast ratchets though - pretty cool). If I need to look harder, let me know.
[quote]Vnation wrote:
CT,
I’m considering starting advanced GVT as a follow up to I,BODYBUILDER before your new programs come out. Coach Polquin recommends a 40x0 tempo and works a greater range of fiber types along with more sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, yet wouldn’t a 20x0 tempo be more in compliance with the perfect rep and as a consequence be better for working the fast twitch fibers? Basically, I’m confused as to the ups and downs of both and am looking for a clear cut answer.[/quote]
Here’s my take on it. This is from an article I’m working on:
''I find that the efficacy of slow eccentrics depends on the level or development and training experience of an individual.
The more muscle mass one has and the more residual scar tissue is left in the muscle (something frequent in individuals with a lot of training experience) the less effective slow eccentrics are. Why? Because hypertrophied muscle fibers and scar tissue increases intramuscular friction. And this friction actually makes slow eccentrics easier because the friction is responsible for the ‘‘breaking or resisting’’ of the downward motion of the resistance.
On the other hand if someone has less intramuscular friction, the muscle tissue itself (via force production) has to do most of the work during the eccentric phase.
This tells me that beginners will benefit more from slow eccentrics than intermediate or advanced lifters. In fact, advanced lifters would do well to de-emphasize eccentric action completely from time to time, to allow for a greater training volume without risking exceeding their recovery capacity.
Another benefit of a relatively rapid eccentric phase is the increased activation of the stretch-reflex. The SR increases force production potential and, over time, can make the muscle fibers take on a more ‘‘fast-twitch like’’ profile. This means more growth in the future.
However this only seems to work with relatively experienced lifters, for whom a rapid eccentric potentiate strength. In beginners it seems to have the opposite effect (it inhibits force production).
So the moral of the story is: if you are a beginner you would do well to start using relatively slow eccentrics, and increase the speed of that phase as you gain more experience.‘’
Hey coach,
i have a question about chest workouts. i read somewhere (pretty sure it was here on forums) that when doing bench press or dumbell press when u start pressing ur outside muscles of chest work and inner work on higher part of lifting. if that is so should i be doing a bench press like start to press at 10 cm over my chest and press until lockout (but not do the lockout cause i wanna keep the tension high)?
I have a pretty large ‘‘outer’’ side of the chest in comparison to my inner so could u give me an advice how to be even or close to even.
Thanx
[quote]dodo888 wrote:
Hey coach,
i have a question about chest workouts. i read somewhere (pretty sure it was here on forums) that when doing bench press or dumbell press when u start pressing ur outside muscles of chest work and inner work on higher part of lifting. if that is so should i be doing a bench press like start to press at 10 cm over my chest and press until lockout (but not do the lockout cause i wanna keep the tension high)?
I have a pretty large ‘‘outer’’ side of the chest in comparison to my inner so could u give me an advice how to be even or close to even.
Thanx[/quote]
Care to rephrase that so that I can understand?
Sorry english is not my main language.
what i meant was should i be doing full ROM when doing bench press, dumbell press or incline bench or or should i lower the bar/dumbell to aproximately 10 cm over my chest and then press. would that help me get more muscle on the middle of my chest ?
Thibs,
Would doing full-body workout 5x a week while cutting be too much?
I was planning on doing a push, a pull and leg movement each workout
then maybe some accessory stuff (arms, face pulls, calves) when i
am up for it…
any input is greatly appreciated
Thib:
I recently bought your mechanical drop set program and was wondering how you would tailor the program to your training approach. Thanks. Hope the habs beat up the pens tonight.