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im basically ask about ur opinion on the need for stim. I guess you end your whatever cycle,deload,stim and pr.

? cycle, stim, stim-deload

PR during stim & stim deload

stim = more intense but still stim

stim-deload = something like MSEM once per week

Is it really worthd to stress the cns by stim for a bigger pr? You could use that time to train....

? stim is less stressful on the cns than hypertrophy/strength block... because with stim you have to keep the overall volume low, intensity high, and use full rest intervals.

there's never just a 'time to train' period IMO, not for non-elite non-genetic athletes... some form of max/explosive strength maintenance has to be used year round.. if you want to dedicate all of your time to training for the skill, well, a small portion should be to maintain max strength, which would be some low volume + high intensity squat and or lunges/stepups once per week.

Do you think after a pr by stim compared to a pr without stim you can constantly replicate the 'stim pr' again without stim and without additional training(such as becoming better at bounds will give u an equal performsnce cuz u ovefloaded the movement and u got better, so if u were to stim again, ud get an even bettef pr)? I mean, the 'stim pr' will stay there and u will be able to replicate it when youre rested?? 

ya you can keep PR's using stim.. you just have to try and maintain the PR.. if you can create PR level jumping / sprinting, then subsequent sessions should be aimed at improving the consistency of achieving that results OR just PR'n again.. by PR'n, your body is showing that it can handle that new performance level, which adds in itself a new level of intensity to each skill session, so the trick is to keep it within range:

- using normal stim protocols to obtain more consistent sprints /jumps near or at that pr
- using more intense stim protocols to try and obtain a new PR

by using stim-like methods, the body is firing optimally come skill-session time.. so these skill sessions that are 'enhanced' with stim become a MORE POWERFUL stimulus than just training with fatigue...

if you jump 40" off a run.. then you stim a 41", you have taught your body how to create 41" and introduced a more intense skill training session because of the new 1" gain in RVJ.. so the trick here would be to try and achieve 40-41" MORE OFTEN, more consistently.. so you might not PR right off the bat again with stim, but your overall session quality should be better.. stack a few of these onto each other and you get new PR's.

If so, whats the 'training' you would do to keep the pr there? And how would u integrate that into the next training cycle?

well i like MSEM stuff.. combine MSEM with skill/plyo work into a block and it's pretty golden.. you can ratio it with an occasional fatigue session, to create a dip in performance to give you some bigger rebounds..

ie: strength(fatigue wo):stim  => 1:3  ..... so for every 3 workouts of stim, you drop in a fatigue wo, ie, 2x5 squat/2x5 lunges/2x5 stepup..

stim sessions potentiate your skill work.. fatigue session causes a dip in performance.. while rebounding out of this dip, eventually you will 'supercompensate' a few days later, so you stack another 3 stim sessions onto it.. trying to ride that supercompenation.

u see?

so, with any block, it has to end... you might be able to do that effectively for 4-8 weeks, with slight variations... after that it's time to either build up work capacity again or whatever..


ok man i have to go get some food bbiab.

pc

Well it's a "way" to "isolate" the hip extension and perform it "powerfully". Since when have we started isolating stuff for athletics?

Anyway, I think they'd be better of with hip thrusts.

i don't recall elite oly lifter's ever doing this stuff either.. when i look at china/polish/bulgarian weightlifting training tapes, I've yet to see any kneeling variations of oly's.. am I wrong here? has anyone seen national teams incorporating kneeling variations heavily?

tychver? anyone? hehe

it's kind of like schroeder saying he saw elite weightlifting teams performing iso's all day long...

Kneeling power clean is ever sillier. Almost all upperbody and great injury possibility (in the last movie).

ya i don't get it, but the entire 'industry' seems to love this stuff now.

lol!

nice rant.

No doubt. Nice article. When's part IV?

part 4 will be templates (GPP/strength/power/stim etc).. showing example workouts etc for each movement efficiency level + weightlifting experience COUPLET (hehe). Just lots of examples organized by experience level.. since some people might have a problem filling in the exercises for each session.

I should have it done in a few weeks, but im working on some other stuff currently. I have so much stuff i'm working on right now it's getting ridiculous..

I'm going to do this same type of thing for DL RVJ eventually too.

pc man

2/24/2010

rained ALOT tonight.. couldn't go workout outside.. so just pushups on pushup handles.

tmw = shadow boxing + cardio / pullups

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this works better then pausing the video on youtube for sure.. but it can't get EVERY frame.. don't think it's possible with flash video (.flv).