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This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. My general rule is to do jumps or throws prior to each training session but this will always change depending on what you are doing in the weight room.
Make sure you have adeq uate rest between each throw and jump. Do them right. So while a box jump is an awesome test, it isn't the u ltimate test of lower body explosiveness. The box jump is i ncredibly easy to perform and is exactly what it sounds like: you jump onto a box.
Use you r arms as part of the jump remember jumps and throws a re a total body exercise and try to land soft. Landing soft is a great way to learn how to be explosive tight! Once you land on the box, either step down or jump down. Personally, I like to jump down and stick the landing position and then reset for the next jump.
The height of the box doesn't have to be a max jump every time. Nor do you have to go through some height progression from workout to workout - let that come naturally.
You want to pick a box that you can make but still requires full effort to get onto. The point of the box jump is not to jump on the highest box possible; rather, it is a way to turn your body on for the lifting session. This isn't hard to figure out if you are a coach with some experience. If you a re a coach or athlete that doesn't have a lot of experience, just start with a low box and progress slowly over a several weeks. You don't have to go crazy when you first begin j umping, and it's not a good idea to test a box jump max the first day.
This is especially true when training younger or weaker athletes. If you are training yourself, think about it this way - you wouldn't try to bench press pounds the first day you come into the weight room. You start with the bar and work up slowly. Use the same common sense approach when jumping.
Remember turning on your nervous system isn't separated i nto u pper and lower body. Box jumps are a great way to prime your body for pressing and bench pressing. If doing box jumps exclusively for you r jump training, I recommend sets of reps. You can change the box height between each set, and I always recommend the first sets being lower than the last sets. Again, this is just common sense.
To perform, start with both feet planted in a comfortable jump position. Swing you r a rms back naturally and push you r hips back and bend your legs. Push forward and up and jump for distance. Be sure to stick the land i ng after each jump. This means land strong on both feet and don't fall forward or backward. Land with as much knee bend as you need. Stand up and reset for the next jump. If using these exclusively for your jump training, I recommend doing 5 sets of 3 jumps.
A good way to add some incentive to each set is to put 2 cones down. The first is where you begin your set of 3. The second cone is where you'd like to land your final jump. This gives you something to shoot for and makes it a bit more competitive with yourself.
These can be a bit more stressful than box j umps due to the impact of the landing. Still the majority of people can handle the standing long jump, and it is far from being a n advanced movement. This is more stressful than the box jump as the landing is much more stressful. The bigger the top surface, the harder it is to get over. In other words, you have to jump over and across. If you a re new to this, limit the work to 3 sets of 3 reps.
Once you get used to it, you can use the same protocol as the box jumps. Bounding is simple: you spend little time on the ground. The ground contact is m inimal and you should a ppear like a rabbit on hot coals.
You do not land flat footed when you bound - you only stick the final jump. You m ust land on the balls of you r feet and keep you r body under control. This becomes very tricky if you don't have the balance or you out jump your body.
Too many people find themselves falling forward when they are bounding and lose a lot of power during the transfer. The point is not so much getting distance between each jump but to keep the ground contact minimal. With that being said, you will get more power into the g round the farther you jump.
So it becomes a balancing game-literally and fig uratively. When you first try this, aim for shorter jumps and concentrate on minimizing ground contact and keeping your body under control. Be sure to use your a rms. Bounding is when jumping becomes a bit more stressful to the body, especially the ankles and knees. This is not required for everyone! First is to set u p two boxes.
Stand on one box and step off do not jump off. Land on two feet and jump onto the other box. The boxes should be about feet away from each other. You do not land flat footed - land on the balls of you r feet and bound onto the box. This will require some practice to get the timing down - and again, be sure to use your a rms. Now when you first try this, the box you step off of should be shorter than the box you jump on. For example, step off a 12" box and bound onto a 30" box.
The higher the box you step off of the more energy you can a bsorb and the higher you can jump. However, it becomes infinitely more stressful and very d ifficult.
Use this method with caution. The best I did was in high school. The second way to do this is to set up 5 boxes in a row, with feet between them.
Jump onto the first box, stick the landing, stand up and step off the box. Land and bound onto the second box. Repeat until you stick the final landing. You can vary the box height from box to box. Aga in, this can be very stressful so it is not for everyone.
I recommend no more than 15 contacts per session. Set up 5 hurdles with appropriate distance between them; you will have to judge the distance based on your own needs. Jump over the first hurdle and bound over the rest, minimizing ground contact. This is incredibly stressful and requires very strong ankles and knees. It also requires a certain rhythm. We did these during the track season with my mentor and discus coach, Darren Llewellyn.
These became the staple jump during this time, and we worked up to 10 high hurdles. Sometimes I cannot believe the stuff we used to do. But understand that this was not something for beginners-all of us did a lot of box jumping and bounding prior to this. If you can do this, use the same protocol as the box jumps.
Bring the medicine bal l over your head, stretch back slightly and with you r entire body, throw the ball forward. Be sure to use you r entire body when you throw the ball, not just you r a rms. Using your entire body means that your feet leave the ground. And this should happen with each version of these medicine ball throws. Bring the ball slightly between your legs as you push your hips back and bend your knees slightly.
Explosively throw the ball over your head for height and distance. Like all medicine ball movements, your feet will leave the ground. One of the keys to this is to be sure to keep your mid-section strong so you do not fold on the way"down or up. To make this challenging, I like doing these with a partner and having him mark where each ball lands. J ust make sure you throw from the same spot and try to beat your previous throw.
You can do these with feet parallel to each other or with either leg in front. The one d ifference that I preach with the chest pass is to make sure you use you r total body to throw the ball.
Your feet will and should leave the ground. In fact, many times you will jump forward, much like a n abbreviated long jump when doing these. Be strong, be fast and don't make this an upper body exercise. Turn everything on! With the medicine ball, I like to m ix and match all the movements and strive for 1 throws per workout.
Do not rush the throws. Don't half-ass you r effort. Wea ker athletes should use an appropriate ball for their strength levels- don't let you r ego dictate the weight of the ball. Just be sure that you a re doing the throws with purpose. You r goal should always to be doing throws or jumps or a m ixture of each before each training session.
I was taught this in high school and believe most people can use this once their bodies have adapted to consistently jumping, throwing and lifting. This is something I learned from reading about track and field throwers. They did it, to my knowledge, to help their weight training become more explosive.
The idea is that when you combine something explosive with a heavy weight-training movement, you will become more explosive while lifting. First, let's address the notion that your lifting will suffer because of this. Or if you a re just a hardheaded bastard - that works too.
Be sure that you keep the throws and jumps to no more than 3 reps - this is not a conditioning exercise so don't turn this into a circus sideshow. Be fast, be explosive. It doesn't matter what you choose as these a re all total body movements and the point is NOT to "work the muscles" but to prime your body. For example, during the wintertime, we do box jumps while we bench and press; we get the same effect as when we do medicine ball throws.
I cannot stress enough the fact m uscles don't exist on an island; everything is connected. If you get strong at these fou r movements, along with the balance from the other a reas, you'll be a strong person. If you are injured and cannot use one of these movements, change it. Just try to pick something that is i n the same category; if you can't press, don't choose a barbell curl in its place.
Choose the incline press or floor press. These alternate lifts take the place of a main lift and a re only used when you cannot tra in a main lift used in the program. All of these supplemental programs can be done with one of the main lifts, and they can a lso be done with an alternate lift. If you use a supplemental lift you must find the correct training max. The only downside to using a n alternate lift is some people are horribly impatient and don't want to spend 20 minutes and test that lift and find a training max.
You can a lways follow the trail of turds these charlatans leave behind by looking for things like, "front squats will help your deadlift" and "pause squats are probably the answer! I'm actually laughing out loud right now. Using a d ifferent supplemental exercise has it's place but if you are weak as piss and can't do basic stuff like 10 chin-ups, 20 perfect hanging leg raises, actually perform some kind of mile run without choking on you r tongue or clipping you r own feet, let's save the bullshit for later.
Until you have some basic level of strength and some kind of fitness level, you don't need anything d ifferent. You r weakness is you aren't strong and you a ren't in shape. You r weakness is listening to idiots - fix that before you add deficit pulls with chains to help you r speed off the floor.
People's weak points are rarely muscles. The newer you a re to structured training and training, in general the longer you can plan in advance. The more advanced you a re, the shorter you r plan. The Prep Plan will consist of two templates: a Leader template and an Anchor template. There a re three different programming models we use: 3 cycles of a Leader template followed by 2 cycles of an Anchor, 2 cycles of a Leader and then 2 cycles of an Anchor and finally 2 cycles of a Leader and 1 cycle of a n Anchor.
Which model you use will depend on your level and the templates themselves. I do not recommend this for most people. Did you r squat and press increase with BBS? Good - now you know you can use this to push your lifts.
Did it not work for your bench press? This is kind of like going through a mini-peak without having to spend six months building up to a max or to see if something works. I see way too many people struggling to hit their work sets with speed, power and strength.
Also many of these programs a re very difficult and spending more than two cycles will burn you out and disrupt any progress you make. The problem most people have with programming their training is they want to do everything on the same level; th is is when injury and overtraining happens.
Things need to be in correct proportions for contin ued success. Training is like building a castle: each day, you lay another brick. This could be done with lifting, jumping, throwing, conditioning or recovery work. Brick by brick you slowly build the castle. Each brick is important but the key is eventually looking up and seeing that you've built a strong castle. So stop this nonsense of trying to build your body, or you r goal, in one training day. Train hard but train smart.
Note: Mobil ity and flexibility work tends to stay the same regardless of template unless you feel the need to do more. In general, a Leader template is usually higher in volume for the supplemental work.
An Anchor template will have less total barbell volume but will be more intense relation to 1RM or sets will be pushed harder. Because Leader templates have a higher volume of barbell work, the hard conditioning and the assistance work will decrease.
You will also do less jumping and throwi ng. Easy conditioning will help mainta i n or improve aerobic levels and help facilitate recovery. Assistance work, hard conditioning and jumps and throws can i ncrease.
But the barbell volume will be lower and you will stil l do easy conditioning. The majority of programs in this book have both a Leader and Anchor template - all you have to decide is which one you want to do. The guidelines provided a re not always set i n stone.
There a re certai n templates that break these rules, but in general, these guidelines will serve you well. Please remember that when choosing the tem plates you must be honest with yourself about your goals, your commitment and what you r body can take. Too many people think a template looks great, but the reality is that they aren't able to handle the work.
There needs to be some accountability on the lifter for his success. Sometimes following your heart is a good idea but your head should at least be consulted. There is enough variety and variations to choose from, no matter what your goals are. Some a re incredibly simple, others much more complex.
The reality is that the ]lh Week Protocol is not done every seventh week; it's just a name. The ]lh Week Protocol serves three functions: as a deload, a testing week for your tra ining max or the chance to hit a PR.
Where you are i n your training wil l determine how you use it. This will ensure that your tra ining maxes a re correct for you next round of training. This is your responsibility.
For each of these uses, the ]lh Week Protocol's general setup and percentages will remain the same. What will change a re the reps done. There will never be any more questions of having the correct training max. So if you can bench press pounds, your training max the number you base all you r percentages on would be pounds. But understand that the training max has nothing to do with your machismo - you m ust use the training max that best d rives you r l ifts.
And after doing this with hundreds of people over the years, the more progress you can make with a lighter training max the better off you will be. After staying with the program for a year or more, you wil l realize that some l ifts need to have a different training max than the others. But if you a re still in limbo, use the training maxes that are recommended for each template. We work up to our training max and attem pt to get reps. Even ifyou get more than five reps for your final set, stay the course.
Do not increase more than the normal amount These sets do not have to be taken to failure - as long as you hit reps, you can stop the set. Let me make this clear again: You do not increase your training max more if you can do more than five reps. If you are continually making progress - don't alter things if you a re getting stronger.
It is a tool to help program you r training in such a way that allows for contin uous success. It allows for p roper bar speed and allows you to account for the bad days; not every training day is going to be amazing. In fact, the longer you train, the more average days you will have. And you will have a lot of bad days too. There will be days that make you re-examine what you are doing and question you r effort.
Should I increase my training max more than the standard five or ten pounds? If you increase your training max more than the allotted amount, the bar speed will suffer, you will plateau quicker and you wil l burn out and get weaker. This is common sense! Keep pushing forward. Recently I had about 4 0 high school kids using the Krypteia program. After three cycles, half of the kids could do their training max for 15 or more reps.
The solution is to keep inching forward; do not adjust your training max other than the basic pounds. In other words, lower your training max. In this case, use the formula for figuring out your estimated max weight x reps x.
Set you r training max correctly to ensure progress. Personally, if an athlete or lifter cannot perform at least five strong reps with thei r training max, I will have them lower it. Prior to any Leader template, I recommend you perform a training max test week. This is for those of you that feel you need a break and know you r training max is correct. You may choose to use it after any cycle if you feel you need it. This is a good option for those that use S's progression for much of your training.
This is a lso a great option for athletes that need to keep the majority of their training lighter to account for all the other phases of training yet still have a week where they can push and be competitive.
There are three options for the? Mobilify War1H-up! Mobilify Warm-up! For example, if you are doing dips and dumbbell bench press as your "push" movements, switch to triceps pushdowns. This will give your shoulders a much-needed break. Assistance work is i mportant but when it stalls or inhi bits your main lifts and other facets of training, then you a re doing it wrong. Get out of you r own way - don't let your assistance fetish derail your goals. I generally have people avoid doing any hard conditioning unless they wish to do a conditioning test.
This is the time to test your mile or attem pt you r Prowler goal. If you do choose to test, you have to use your best j udgment on which l ifts if any to push hard. Obviously, if you are using something like the Prowler or some kind of running test, it's best not to squat too hard the day prior. Even if you do a conditioning test, I still recommend doing some recovery work with easy conditioning on the other days. Don't just sit around; use this time to get your body moving. Remember that recovery work is not a workout - it's there to make you feel better.
If this isn't happening, you a re doing it wrong. Understand this important point: You will have to reset your training maxes frequently. The longer you've been training, the harder it is to make progress. And this becomes especially true with the press and bench press.
So don't get frustrated; simply reset and attack with a nother strategy. It's just the reality of training. Many of the programs in this book a re very tough and may require you to take a deload after each cycle.
Don't be so proud or so brainwashed to think you don't need a deload. You can't run your body in the red week after week and not expect something bad to happen.
Use your head, and use your experience. If you come to the point where you a re too run down to train or you have too many bad days in a row, then that is on you. Plan better, recover better and use the experience to teach you a lesson you won't repeat again. I wanted something that was structured enough to make programming easier. Still, I wanted enough flexibility to al low an i ndividual lifter to make choices based on his preferences, his needs and what he has access to in his weight room.
Each category will be g iven a set number of total reps. Now, each template will have specific recommendations for the total amount of reps per category. You can choose to do more or less, but understand that this has been tested and wel l thought out. This is not something I came up with on a Monday and published on a Tuesday.
I have a specific list of movements per category. You can mix and match any of the movements to hit your total reps for the workout.
Using different assistance exercises can add variety to your training; I don't see any problem in changing the exercises from workout to workout. It is the work that matters. However there are exercises that may work better for you or ones that you simply enjoy doing. The key is doing a balanced amount of work. Thus we have the three main categories. From experience, most people have no problem doing dips, chin-ups, rows and curls. They a re more than happy to do these until they are blue in the face.
Really, all I could do was squat, bench, and deadlift. The entire program is designed to allow for more conditioning, more overall recovery, and a better general sense of well-being. People laugh and call me lazy, while they twit around in their three-hour workout making zero progress.
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