does stretching make you flexible- by Steve Pulcinella
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/rehabilitation/does-stretching-make-you-flexible/
6 Tips from 6 Coachesby Ben Bruno
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/6_tips_from_6_coaches
The "Pro Athlete Trainer Myth"- by flo fitness
http://flofitnessllc.blogspot.com/2012/02/pro-athlete-trainer-myth.html
Reaching Your Potential in the Big 3by Lee Boyce and Todd Bumgardner
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/reaching_your_potential_in_the_big_3
Monday, February 13, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Too much?
As a powerliftter I may be about to commit sacrilige but, strength might be overated. People sometimes impose their own bias on to others as "the way". My job as a trainer is to have my clients achieve their goals, whatever they may be. If my clients program looks like mine, then that client better have my exact goals, exercise history, injury history, mobility issues etc.
The clearest example i can think of are bodybuilding style trainers. Does their 60 something year old sweet as pie grandma client need to be doing an "arm day" or a 9th set of the third chest exercise of that day? I think a lot of this comes from ego, thinking that what we do is the best. That thinking needs to change to (maybe) what i'm doing is the best for me. Usually its more like this is the only thing i know how to do and say its the best because I do not know any better.
What about powerlifters? most trainers can agree that squatting and deadlifting are essential movements we as humans should be doing. My question is how much is too much? Just like grandma does not need flat bench; incline; decline; chest flye days, She definitely doesn't need maximal effort method front squatting. Even though increasing maximal strength will make lighter work absolutely easier, it will improve her bone mineral density, we can easily say its too much.
Grandma was an easy case, but what about young athletes? I made a friend of mine start dunking by increasing his 5rm back squat, but how much is too much? A stronger squat will improve knee stability, maybe even verticals (as my single person case study showed). Where is the line in the sand?
I overanalyze everything so I wanted to make this simpler for myself. What do I, did I do to improve performance in my sport? I practiced and drilled. I could not stop my opponent from taking my leg, so I worked on sprawling and defending the takedown. I wasn't getting to my opponents knees? thousands of shots at my drill partner or the air.
would a heavier barbell reverse lunge help me? maybe. it would/could make my step into the opponent more explosive. I had a potentially stronger split stance step, now I took this newfound explosive and did thousands more shots at an opponent or air with a stronger first step.
What I am trying to say is that if a MINIMAL amount of strength is not in the picture then strength training will improve your sport performance. If a minimal amount of strength is in place then getting stronger will give you the ability to do better when you practice, which will in turn make you better at your sport.
Train to be better at practice/ don't train to the point where it has an adverse effect on practice.
practice to be become better at your sport
compete
find a weakness
strengthen that weakness
practice as an even fitter person to be even better at your sport
repeat cycle
just my thoughts
-Jorge Unigarro
The clearest example i can think of are bodybuilding style trainers. Does their 60 something year old sweet as pie grandma client need to be doing an "arm day" or a 9th set of the third chest exercise of that day? I think a lot of this comes from ego, thinking that what we do is the best. That thinking needs to change to (maybe) what i'm doing is the best for me. Usually its more like this is the only thing i know how to do and say its the best because I do not know any better.
What about powerlifters? most trainers can agree that squatting and deadlifting are essential movements we as humans should be doing. My question is how much is too much? Just like grandma does not need flat bench; incline; decline; chest flye days, She definitely doesn't need maximal effort method front squatting. Even though increasing maximal strength will make lighter work absolutely easier, it will improve her bone mineral density, we can easily say its too much.
Grandma was an easy case, but what about young athletes? I made a friend of mine start dunking by increasing his 5rm back squat, but how much is too much? A stronger squat will improve knee stability, maybe even verticals (as my single person case study showed). Where is the line in the sand?
I overanalyze everything so I wanted to make this simpler for myself. What do I, did I do to improve performance in my sport? I practiced and drilled. I could not stop my opponent from taking my leg, so I worked on sprawling and defending the takedown. I wasn't getting to my opponents knees? thousands of shots at my drill partner or the air.
would a heavier barbell reverse lunge help me? maybe. it would/could make my step into the opponent more explosive. I had a potentially stronger split stance step, now I took this newfound explosive and did thousands more shots at an opponent or air with a stronger first step.
What I am trying to say is that if a MINIMAL amount of strength is not in the picture then strength training will improve your sport performance. If a minimal amount of strength is in place then getting stronger will give you the ability to do better when you practice, which will in turn make you better at your sport.
Train to be better at practice/ don't train to the point where it has an adverse effect on practice.
practice to be become better at your sport
compete
find a weakness
strengthen that weakness
practice as an even fitter person to be even better at your sport
repeat cycle
just my thoughts
-Jorge Unigarro
Friday, February 10, 2012
Alright stop! hammer time
avoiding plateaus is not an easy task. No matter how well versed we are in exercise science or how expensive our gym or trainer fees are, we run into plateaus from time to time. Designing programs is a balancing act.
Do it like crossfit and change movements seemingly without thought? Ok, you avoid the worry of getting accustomed to the stimulis BUT you may remain too cognitive in the learning phase, and never really a move well enough to add some appreciable weight.
Do it the opposite way and you get PLENTY of practice in the movement but the stimulis is diminished. The positive is the movement gets perfected, with this you can add more weight than if you changed every exercise every workout. The negative is you get too accustomed to the movement, and diminishing the stimulis which will minimize the adaptation from it.
Exercise selection is nothing more than a variable in program design, to be tweaked, maintained, or let go of for whatever reason we choose. Programming Design is like a science experiment, if i do X what will happen? the only difference is we have a pretty good idea of what will happen. In this science experiment a variable that is sometimes forgetting (usually because it makes the exercise more difficult) is pausing in the eccentric/concentric phase.
I want to think about four distinct phases of a lift, and lets the bench press as the example (since its an easy one) the concentric (the press), eccentric (lowering) phase in between concentric and eccentric (lockout) and the phase between eccentric and concentric (the bottom range of it.
In the bench press (for example) what are the benefits of a pause at the bottom? As we lower the bar we build up energy in our muscles, think a rubber band being pulled back before you flick it a little sibling or cousins head. This energy is recycled to help you in concentric phase, and overused by deuchebags bouncing the weight uncontrollably off their chest. 1 benefit is it minimizes you looking like deuchebag. Another benefit is with resting at the bottom, the potential energy goes away after a few seconds the potentially recycled energy is gone and you are forced to call on MORE MUSCLE fibers to lift the weight off your chest.
Eliminating or diminishing the stretch reflex has some awesome side effect as well. It minimizes our chance of using weights that we have no business dealing but only do so because your ass is a foot off the bench and you're leaving bruises on your chest from the bounce.
This pause isn't a magic bullet and there are some negatives to it as well. Using this energy is natural to our bodies, its on our walk, run, jump etc. another negative is maybe we shouldn't always use a full range of motion and staying at a range of motion that isn't good for you, longer. does some damage. For Example, if at the bottom of the bench our shoulders can't be set right staying there under load will quickly hurt you. An easier example to see is with the squat, if full rom is ass to grass, but you are so tight that slightly above parrallel lumbar flexion occurs then going lower with load and holding that position is a recipe for disaster.
This is yet another balancing act of pro versus con is it worth the negatives for positives? this pause is nothing more than yet another variable which is a part of the tempo of the lift.
Change variables often enough that enough that you do not remain stagnant, but so often that you can't make too many gains from building on that movement.
Do it like crossfit and change movements seemingly without thought? Ok, you avoid the worry of getting accustomed to the stimulis BUT you may remain too cognitive in the learning phase, and never really a move well enough to add some appreciable weight.
Do it the opposite way and you get PLENTY of practice in the movement but the stimulis is diminished. The positive is the movement gets perfected, with this you can add more weight than if you changed every exercise every workout. The negative is you get too accustomed to the movement, and diminishing the stimulis which will minimize the adaptation from it.
Exercise selection is nothing more than a variable in program design, to be tweaked, maintained, or let go of for whatever reason we choose. Programming Design is like a science experiment, if i do X what will happen? the only difference is we have a pretty good idea of what will happen. In this science experiment a variable that is sometimes forgetting (usually because it makes the exercise more difficult) is pausing in the eccentric/concentric phase.
I want to think about four distinct phases of a lift, and lets the bench press as the example (since its an easy one) the concentric (the press), eccentric (lowering) phase in between concentric and eccentric (lockout) and the phase between eccentric and concentric (the bottom range of it.
In the bench press (for example) what are the benefits of a pause at the bottom? As we lower the bar we build up energy in our muscles, think a rubber band being pulled back before you flick it a little sibling or cousins head. This energy is recycled to help you in concentric phase, and overused by deuchebags bouncing the weight uncontrollably off their chest. 1 benefit is it minimizes you looking like deuchebag. Another benefit is with resting at the bottom, the potential energy goes away after a few seconds the potentially recycled energy is gone and you are forced to call on MORE MUSCLE fibers to lift the weight off your chest.
Eliminating or diminishing the stretch reflex has some awesome side effect as well. It minimizes our chance of using weights that we have no business dealing but only do so because your ass is a foot off the bench and you're leaving bruises on your chest from the bounce.
This pause isn't a magic bullet and there are some negatives to it as well. Using this energy is natural to our bodies, its on our walk, run, jump etc. another negative is maybe we shouldn't always use a full range of motion and staying at a range of motion that isn't good for you, longer. does some damage. For Example, if at the bottom of the bench our shoulders can't be set right staying there under load will quickly hurt you. An easier example to see is with the squat, if full rom is ass to grass, but you are so tight that slightly above parrallel lumbar flexion occurs then going lower with load and holding that position is a recipe for disaster.
This is yet another balancing act of pro versus con is it worth the negatives for positives? this pause is nothing more than yet another variable which is a part of the tempo of the lift.
Change variables often enough that enough that you do not remain stagnant, but so often that you can't make too many gains from building on that movement.
Monday, January 9, 2012
315 high box squat for 24 straight reps
A few years ago this article was posted on t-nation.com http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/death_squat
I felt like attempting this and here is the video if the video doesn't play here is the link
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Pareto principle
5/3/1, Show and Go, Westside barbell, countless other programs share a similar trait emphasis on the first exercise or grouping of exercises. This emphasis isn't by coincidence and it isn't applicable solely to exercise.
The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule; the law of the vital few; and the principle of factor sparcity, states that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. This rule of thumb comes from Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto after observing that 80% of the land in Italy in 1906 was owned by 20% of the people.
So what's the big deal? People are selfish assholes, always have been and always will be, right? I mean this fight is being fought right now by thoe occupy wall streeters. Besides, why should you care about what Italy was like in 1906?
Well, Pareto also observed that 20% of the peapods he had planted contained 80% of the peas he yielded. A similar study was done in 1992 by the United Nations which showed 82.7% of the worlds income belong to the richest 20%. Again, why does this matter?
Our job as trainers is to manipulate variables to produce a specific adaptation. That is how we get our clients to reach their goals. However, there is a flipside: Our job regarding program design also includes managing stress. To tie this in with Pareto's work, Drs. Vladimir Zatsiorsky and William Kramer found (I'm paraphrasing since I lent my book to a friend) up to 85% of our adaptations come from our first two working sets. Now how a working set is defined is a question I'm not ready to answer at this time - (I'm not smart enough.) But here is what I think a working set is, down to 90% of the day's max weight at the target reps.
Now lets circle back to us as trainers managing stress. I'm not going to lie - hiring a trainer can be expensive, so odds are most people with trainers work hard for the money, so hard for it honey. The lifestyle of many trainees is stressful - hell, life is stressful - so why would we want to add excessive stress to an already stressed person?
If we know that up to 85% of adaptations come from our first two working sets why are some trainers killing their clients on their 8th exercise set # 25 for the day? That's overkill especially if after the first few sets of the day you're only working on the last 15%. Probably uneducated trainers, or client is not being pushed hard enough in the first few sets. If there is such a minimal return on the energy invested, why risk potential injury - especially since the client is probably fatigued - by working as hard for the 15% as you would for the 85%? As Dan John would say, THE GOAL IS TO KEEP THE GOAL THE GOAL.
How do we do that: keep the goal the goal? First step would be to figure out a goal. From there figure out what it is I need to do to achieve that goal, and especially consider what can I get from the workout to get to that goal. What exercises do I need to be doing; what variables need to be manipulated to best achieve that goal. From there focus on improving those lifts through the chosen variables. Lets call this the Main Effort Lift(s) of the day.Tthis/these lifts (if supersetted) will be responsible for up to 85% of my adaptations. Kill this part of workout.
From there it's a battle against diminishing returns. The rest of the workout should focus on improving the main lift and correcting whatever the main lift messes up on your body ie. Horizontal push main effort days should be met with a lot of pulling motions so we don't get all upper crossed as well as some extra shoulder and tricep work (if the goal is to improve the bench). Then some specific corrective work: using the same example of benching: some rotator cuff work , core work, maybe some conditioning or vanity work if there is time.
The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule; the law of the vital few; and the principle of factor sparcity, states that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. This rule of thumb comes from Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto after observing that 80% of the land in Italy in 1906 was owned by 20% of the people.
So what's the big deal? People are selfish assholes, always have been and always will be, right? I mean this fight is being fought right now by thoe occupy wall streeters. Besides, why should you care about what Italy was like in 1906?
Well, Pareto also observed that 20% of the peapods he had planted contained 80% of the peas he yielded. A similar study was done in 1992 by the United Nations which showed 82.7% of the worlds income belong to the richest 20%. Again, why does this matter?
Our job as trainers is to manipulate variables to produce a specific adaptation. That is how we get our clients to reach their goals. However, there is a flipside: Our job regarding program design also includes managing stress. To tie this in with Pareto's work, Drs. Vladimir Zatsiorsky and William Kramer found (I'm paraphrasing since I lent my book to a friend) up to 85% of our adaptations come from our first two working sets. Now how a working set is defined is a question I'm not ready to answer at this time - (I'm not smart enough.) But here is what I think a working set is, down to 90% of the day's max weight at the target reps.
Now lets circle back to us as trainers managing stress. I'm not going to lie - hiring a trainer can be expensive, so odds are most people with trainers work hard for the money, so hard for it honey. The lifestyle of many trainees is stressful - hell, life is stressful - so why would we want to add excessive stress to an already stressed person?
If we know that up to 85% of adaptations come from our first two working sets why are some trainers killing their clients on their 8th exercise set # 25 for the day? That's overkill especially if after the first few sets of the day you're only working on the last 15%. Probably uneducated trainers, or client is not being pushed hard enough in the first few sets. If there is such a minimal return on the energy invested, why risk potential injury - especially since the client is probably fatigued - by working as hard for the 15% as you would for the 85%? As Dan John would say, THE GOAL IS TO KEEP THE GOAL THE GOAL.
How do we do that: keep the goal the goal? First step would be to figure out a goal. From there figure out what it is I need to do to achieve that goal, and especially consider what can I get from the workout to get to that goal. What exercises do I need to be doing; what variables need to be manipulated to best achieve that goal. From there focus on improving those lifts through the chosen variables. Lets call this the Main Effort Lift(s) of the day.Tthis/these lifts (if supersetted) will be responsible for up to 85% of my adaptations. Kill this part of workout.
From there it's a battle against diminishing returns. The rest of the workout should focus on improving the main lift and correcting whatever the main lift messes up on your body ie. Horizontal push main effort days should be met with a lot of pulling motions so we don't get all upper crossed as well as some extra shoulder and tricep work (if the goal is to improve the bench). Then some specific corrective work: using the same example of benching: some rotator cuff work , core work, maybe some conditioning or vanity work if there is time.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Big fish little pond
if you could be the best out of a bunch of scrubs, or be the worst out of a bunch of studs which would you choose? i'd rather follow studs than lead wackasses.
recently i had the privelage to lift with coach sadiv at parisi's speed school in new jersey. for those who dont know who coach sadiv is, please youtube him right now, he is also known as the human crane. the order of the day was deadlifts and boy did we ever pull some weight! with an achy lower back from sitting at the desk too long and not warming up and stretching for about a month i pulled an easy 525 and attempted a personal best of 575 which i failed but the motivation and fire was there! from there we moved on to reverse band deadlifts to help with the lockout. with this set up I pulled a devilish 300kg (get it!!! 300kg's 666 pounds)! for those that never reverse band pulled, at the lockout its pretty much all you!
ok, thats enough reporting heres the moral of the story, you are as successful as the average of the five people closest to you or something like that. success is contagious! thats why its so hard for kids to get out of the projects. and why deuchebag fratboys will always bench no more 225 and quarter smith machine squat 135 but will try to rack out the leg extension machine. luckily i had the human crane who is probablythe best deadlifter in the 82 kilogram weight class in this country and shintaro higashi who is a top 50 in the world judo player as my lifting partners, those studs will show me how to be on their level of success!
Dn't be a big fish in a small pond! if you're too big for that by not moving forward you will stop growing. Just being in that atmosphere encourages growth! Get right or you'll get left. Move to that bigger stage if you have outgrown the one you are in now. I had just one workout, one conversation, one meeting with coach Sadiv and I already know I am improved as a lifter! My mind set got right now i know what awesomeness is.
My new goals are 1400+ pound total in a powerlifting meet. Although this goal has always been there for me, it now seems more real having lifted with people in my weight class doing the numbers i wish to do. Surround yourself and you'll soon learn to do what they do, their successful habits will become yours, you'll learn whatever "secrets" they have and you'll be one of them provided you do what they did to get to where they are and you want to be.
My new goals are 1400+ pound total in a powerlifting meet. Although this goal has always been there for me, it now seems more real having lifted with people in my weight class doing the numbers i wish to do. Surround yourself and you'll soon learn to do what they do, their successful habits will become yours, you'll learn whatever "secrets" they have and you'll be one of them provided you do what they did to get to where they are and you want to be.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Haterade
H.A.T.E.R.S
Having
Anger
Towards
Everyone
Reaching
Success
Olympic/Powerlifter's- All bloated fat bastards, so what if you can lift heavy weight once, you can't do anything for more than 6 repetitions without breaking out in a sweat. This includes walking.
Bodybuilders- WEAK!! All the look of Athleticism none of the athleticism. Can't move functionally to save their life. Would probably make good poppers in a breakdancing crew since all they can do is move one joint at a time. oh and do not get me started on the smith machine work, the half (at best) squats and my all around favorite smith half squat.
Crossfit-The worst people alive. Awesome 60kg snatch bro! that 95 lb thruster is really manly. form? totally overated, who needs to learn how to do a clean when you can do an explosive power reverse curl and do not plan on going heavier than bodyweight anyway.
Pilates- Those little leg circles and drawing my belly button will really help when i go lift umm i guess myself lying horizontally in a sliding bed with my feet turned out. um if i ever find myself in that situation i'm all good to go.
Yoga- nice posterior pelvic tilt I'm certain that is normal. also love the absolute disregard to woolf's law as well as lack of muscle overall
Kettlebeller's- you and your 35.2 lb balls rock! why would i ever need to put up any weight a real man would lift when i have 35.2 lb balls
Endurance athletes- Injury= (number of repetitions x force)/ (amplitude x rest)
enjoy all of your knee/shoulder/hip/spine surgeries. Your sport never caused the injury though it was that ONE time you squatted/deadlifted/benched/overhead pressed/did a pull-up/dip/good morning/anything worthwhile that hurt you snot the literal millions of reps
Functional trainees- awesome walkout into spiderman lunge into pigeon pose into worlds greatest stretch then downward facing dog/ calf stretch, into overhead squat on the way up. so cool that you can move WITHOUT any weight. its appropriate to model movements after babies motor learning patters because you use similar resistance. also enough with the bands already
I think i covered most of the stupid comments people make about other styles of lifting not their own.
I powerlift but i'm not fat, am i as muscled as a bodybuilder no. as lean as a crossfitter no. as flexible as a yogi no. core aware as a pilates practioner no. as mobile as people who focus on functional training nope. Everything has a purpose and just as in program design the important things go first, for me its my competition lifts but having more muscle might keep less likely to be injured as well as stepping my sexy game up. kettlebells are great low impact explosive hip extension, cardio, and potentially awesome for mobility if done right. Everything is a tool that is helpful regardless of your goal, would i love to have the abs that the women of crossfit have? hell yes!
What ruins everything is our Dogmatic Zealous approach to things. The paleo-lithic male lived off of wheat and worms and usually died in his teens, that doesn't mean that a diet plan that recommnends more vegetables less food that you didnt make yourself and (god bless them) more bacon isn't awesome. i shouldn't make fun of a bodybuilder for being weaker or as strong as I am even though i weigh 2/3 what they do. Why, because thats how it should be. if i compete in a strength sport then i better be stronger than the guy that competes in a physique sport. If that is not the case then I failed miserably.
Don't knock it till you tried it. An honest sincere approach. Think kb's are stupid work to get a good score on the secret service test, compete in a GS meet, train for a compete in a PL meet oly meet, do crossfit for 3 months, tryout for the games, run the urbanathlon. do yoga and pilates for a month, run a 10k . Everything has it's benefits and drawbacks, each training style (if that makes sense) impose a specific demand on the body, that demand will elicit its own specific adaptation. Said adaptation will be exceptional greater to somebody that normally doesn't train in that style. Use the right tool for the job! the more tools you have at your disposal the better job you can do
Lastly i've done all of these (except try out for the CF games but i will see you in march kids) and i've added each of that to my personal toolbox and I am a better coach and athlete for it.
NOW STOP...... HATING'S BAD
Having
Anger
Towards
Everyone
Reaching
Success
Olympic/Powerlifter's- All bloated fat bastards, so what if you can lift heavy weight once, you can't do anything for more than 6 repetitions without breaking out in a sweat. This includes walking.
Bodybuilders- WEAK!! All the look of Athleticism none of the athleticism. Can't move functionally to save their life. Would probably make good poppers in a breakdancing crew since all they can do is move one joint at a time. oh and do not get me started on the smith machine work, the half (at best) squats and my all around favorite smith half squat.
Crossfit-The worst people alive. Awesome 60kg snatch bro! that 95 lb thruster is really manly. form? totally overated, who needs to learn how to do a clean when you can do an explosive power reverse curl and do not plan on going heavier than bodyweight anyway.
Pilates- Those little leg circles and drawing my belly button will really help when i go lift umm i guess myself lying horizontally in a sliding bed with my feet turned out. um if i ever find myself in that situation i'm all good to go.
Yoga- nice posterior pelvic tilt I'm certain that is normal. also love the absolute disregard to woolf's law as well as lack of muscle overall
Kettlebeller's- you and your 35.2 lb balls rock! why would i ever need to put up any weight a real man would lift when i have 35.2 lb balls
Endurance athletes- Injury= (number of repetitions x force)/ (amplitude x rest)
enjoy all of your knee/shoulder/hip/spine surgeries. Your sport never caused the injury though it was that ONE time you squatted/deadlifted/benched/overhead pressed/did a pull-up/dip/good morning/anything worthwhile that hurt you snot the literal millions of reps
Functional trainees- awesome walkout into spiderman lunge into pigeon pose into worlds greatest stretch then downward facing dog/ calf stretch, into overhead squat on the way up. so cool that you can move WITHOUT any weight. its appropriate to model movements after babies motor learning patters because you use similar resistance. also enough with the bands already
I think i covered most of the stupid comments people make about other styles of lifting not their own.
I powerlift but i'm not fat, am i as muscled as a bodybuilder no. as lean as a crossfitter no. as flexible as a yogi no. core aware as a pilates practioner no. as mobile as people who focus on functional training nope. Everything has a purpose and just as in program design the important things go first, for me its my competition lifts but having more muscle might keep less likely to be injured as well as stepping my sexy game up. kettlebells are great low impact explosive hip extension, cardio, and potentially awesome for mobility if done right. Everything is a tool that is helpful regardless of your goal, would i love to have the abs that the women of crossfit have? hell yes!
What ruins everything is our Dogmatic Zealous approach to things. The paleo-lithic male lived off of wheat and worms and usually died in his teens, that doesn't mean that a diet plan that recommnends more vegetables less food that you didnt make yourself and (god bless them) more bacon isn't awesome. i shouldn't make fun of a bodybuilder for being weaker or as strong as I am even though i weigh 2/3 what they do. Why, because thats how it should be. if i compete in a strength sport then i better be stronger than the guy that competes in a physique sport. If that is not the case then I failed miserably.
Don't knock it till you tried it. An honest sincere approach. Think kb's are stupid work to get a good score on the secret service test, compete in a GS meet, train for a compete in a PL meet oly meet, do crossfit for 3 months, tryout for the games, run the urbanathlon. do yoga and pilates for a month, run a 10k . Everything has it's benefits and drawbacks, each training style (if that makes sense) impose a specific demand on the body, that demand will elicit its own specific adaptation. Said adaptation will be exceptional greater to somebody that normally doesn't train in that style. Use the right tool for the job! the more tools you have at your disposal the better job you can do
Lastly i've done all of these (except try out for the CF games but i will see you in march kids) and i've added each of that to my personal toolbox and I am a better coach and athlete for it.
NOW STOP...... HATING'S BAD
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