Dude you should open your own training compound. Your knowledge on sports training is as good or better then anyone anywhere IMO. The thing that has always stood out to me is you're not afraid to experiment with all sorts of stuff, but you don't lose site of the big picture. I dunno, it's hard to explain. In my experience too many people in S&C are either sheep or overanalyzers to the extreme. They either follow whatever they were taught and don't venture outside of it or they get bogged down in so much irrelevant stuff their program as a whole loses value You bring more of a principle based artistic approach to training.
hah thanks for the compliment. I don't think I'll be starting my own compound any time soon though, but that would be sick.
You're definitely right about the "artistic approach". I do consider s&c to be more of an art than science, especially considering that most people who get too caught up into the science end up getting nowhere. However, most people that lack knowledge of the sciences end up not getting anywhere either. Don't get me wrong, I love the science, as is evident with the peer-review section, but I don't dive into the minutia & get stuck there. Making use of frequency/singles, designing rebounds etc, takes a bit of an artistic approach for sure. I mean, you kind of have to feel all that stuff beforehand as it's happening, make adjustments, and go with the flow.
After having detrained for ~6 months, I've finally kicked my weight training for performance addiction. I've been training recently, first & foremost, to get in excellent shape. Secondly, I've started to want to get my running vert's back up, but using some stuff I tried experimenting with in the past: mostly reactive/plyo/bodyweight movements + jumping etc. I attempted this in the past, but, I just couldn't stick with it because of the addiction to heavy strength training. Instead of just focusing on my LR plant, I want to improve my SLRVJ now too, as well as RL plant.
I'm going to try and approach it the same way I would with lifting for performance. Right now I'm in a "GPP" stage, very long workouts working on alot of movements, especially single leg bounds & stiff leg ankle hops. I did 20 sets of bounds each leg the other night, it was too much fun. My legs felt pretty bionic yesterday, but my head is in a major fog today due to the ~400-500 pushups i did yesterday.
It's funny, every time i do 400-500 pushups, my brain turns to mush.
So ya, this experiment is entirely for fun, with nothing holding it back. I'm using the concept of "play", except my toys are reactive movements, sprints, bodyweight exercises, etc. I know it'll get me back to dunking but no sure how high in absolute terms I will get. One leg dunks will be fun though.
alright peace man
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