THE RATIO TECHNIQUE BIG EXPERIMENT SUMMARYEnd of previous season stats:
~25 July 2010
Bodyweight : ~190
EXPLOSIVE HALF SQUATS : 231
MSEM HALF SQUAT : 3x1x297
Standing vert : ~29''
Dropstep : ~31''
RVJ : ~34,5''
- 3-4 weeks of summer detraining:
START : ~20 August 2010
END : ~15 November 2010
BODYWEIGT : ~196
SQUAT : 5x264 ( half squats )
EXPLOSIVE HALF SQUATS ( MSEM ) : 198
MSEM HALF SQUATS : 3x1x275
Standing vert : ~27''
Dropstep : ~30''
RVJ : ~32''
START : ~15 November 2010
END : ~20 December 2010
BODYWEIGT : ~201
SQUAT : 5x297 ( half squats )
EXPLOSIVE HALF SQUATS ( MSEM ) : 253 ,
MSEM HALF SQUATS : 3x1x319 ,
Standing vert : ~28''
Dropstep : ~32,5'' ,
RVJ : ~33,5''
-Christmas , ~3 weeks detraining
START : ~10 January 2011
END : ~20 April 2011
BODYWEIGT : ~195
SQUAT : 5x231 ( parallel )
EXPLOSIVE HALF SQUATS ( MSEM ) : 264 ,
MSEM HALF SQUATS : 3x1x319 , ties
Standing vert : ~29'' , ties
Dropstep : ~32,5 , ties
RVJ : ~34,5'' , ties
START : ~20 April 2011
END : ~15 May 2011
BODYWEIGT : ~195
Standing vert : ~30.5'' ,
Dropstep : ~33'' ,
RVJ : ~34''
COMMENTS:
- Overall periodization is awesome , the results are huge cosidering my age and training background ( small room for gains ).
- Best results came in the neutral phase. Although it included the 1 week of ski major derail , the balance between strength end power workouts seemed to work great. Also during that phase , on my normal squat days ( 4x6 ) i focused more on depth going parallel in all sets, in the previous phase i was starting parallel but building up to a half-squat moeny set. I believe the deep squat strength day / half squat power day combo worked well.
- Peak phase went bad because of heavy schedule of bball games. In the only true ME jumps session i had in that cycle ( jumping AM , caffed up ) i got SVJ and dropstep PRs. I believe the following week(s) i will see the results of that power/peak oriented phase and have further PRs.
