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Performance Area => Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion => Topic started by: Harvey on July 13, 2012, 07:11:05 am

Title: Do I need to be doing explosive strength work?
Post by: Harvey on July 13, 2012, 07:11:05 am: Read an article from Kelly and I now have a firm grasp on Limit/Explosive/Reactive strength. Realized I wasn't really doing any explosive stuff, mostly limit and reactive.

Will incorporating paused rep squats help?
Title: Re: Do I need to be doing explosive strength work?
Post by: steven-miller on July 15, 2012, 06:49:12 pm: Hey Harvey,

how is your training going? You have not logged many work-outs recently. What are your current numbers?
Title: Re: Do I need to be doing explosive strength work?
Post by: Harvey on July 21, 2012, 09:21:22 pm: Hey man. I'm logging everything on an offline website. Here's what it looks like.

(http://i.imgur.com/Wdy4F.jpg)

Training's going great lately because I've just made a huge RVJ PR, which, at the end of the day, is my goal. My RVJ is at 35" and I need that up to around 37-38 by the end of the year. I'm now heavier than ever at around 81kg. Perhaps I've grown taller, not sure.

Squat-wise, wouldn't be too impressive. As an 'elite' volleyballer, I'm constantly travelling for tournaments and whatnot so it's hard for me to sustain a long period of lifting. I seem to be making some strength gains, then going on tour for 2 weeks, coming back and trying to get that strength back. So, I don't think my numbers would have improved a whole lot. Last I remember, I did 110kg 2x3. I really want to get that up to 115-120x5 in the next couple of months.

So yes, training's going excellent. Thanks for asking.
Title: Re: Do I need to be doing explosive strength work?
Post by: vag on July 22, 2012, 07:10:32 am: Love that site you put up to log your training! :highfive:
You could make a "light" page that is auto-fed with every training day in a blog format , or any other format, the main idea is that besides the main page there would be a distinct address for each training day, and you could just post the link in here. You could keep the site offline or private and just let the "lifting numbers blog" online.
Or you could just keep it up like now and update us with milestones.
Good work, keep it up.
Title: Re: Do I need to be doing explosive strength work?
Post by: Harvey on July 22, 2012, 05:34:30 pm: Quote from: vag on July 22, 2012, 07:10:32 am
Love that site you put up to log your training! :highfive:
You could make a "light" page that is auto-fed with every training day in a blog format , or any other format, the main idea is that besides the main page there would be a distinct address for each training day, and you could just post the link in here. You could keep the site offline or private and just let the "lifting numbers blog" online.
Or you could just keep it up like now and update us with milestones.
Good work, keep it up.

Thanks, it takes sometimes 30 minutes to update it as it is (it's all hard coded so I have to edit documents) so I'd rather not put it online. I will just update everyone every now and again. :)