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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 10, 2014, 03:27:09 am »
Yes but subjecting yourself to RFD work still counts as muscle damage and that muscle must be repaired and grows, so even with a lower time under tension doing explosive work - you can still get very strong. It won't be displayed in the gym, it will be displayed on the actual field.
And if you're an athlete and not a powerlifter, then that's what you should care about.
I know people in the track and field camp that barely squat with too much volume or intensity, yet if you take them out of their never ending plyometric world of bounding and hurdle jumping and long jumping and sprinting and put them in the gym for a few weeks they will start to display amazing strength due to all that plyo work that they have been doing.
It works the other way around too - if strength (squat) work can improve jumping, then jumping and sprinting and bounding can improve the squat. Why? Because they both improve strength. It's just that one does it faster and is less specific while the other does it "slower" but is more specific.
And if you're an athlete and not a powerlifter, then that's what you should care about.
I know people in the track and field camp that barely squat with too much volume or intensity, yet if you take them out of their never ending plyometric world of bounding and hurdle jumping and long jumping and sprinting and put them in the gym for a few weeks they will start to display amazing strength due to all that plyo work that they have been doing.
It works the other way around too - if strength (squat) work can improve jumping, then jumping and sprinting and bounding can improve the squat. Why? Because they both improve strength. It's just that one does it faster and is less specific while the other does it "slower" but is more specific.
