Strength Coaches
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Starr is still alive from memory, Pendlay is relatively young and still alive.[b said:
Depends on what you are looking for. Pure strength from a powerlifting front (like louie simmons) or more of a sports specific strength coach (joe schoeder) or somebody in between.
each does a differen thing and you cant say one is better than another per se,
Theres a lot of whacky coaches
like you could go Chucky P, and learn about fire water and sand or whatever he goes on aboutThen you can go with Chek and measure the length of your dumps
Olympic Weightlifters are the most powerful athletes
in sport. Olympic Weightliftings execute ballistic
resistence movements with their feet on the ground and
using the entire body. Although not the only way to
train for power, Weightlifting has been around for so
long, is so well studied and so effective that it has
become the core training method of virtually every
serious post prep school athletic training program in
the US.
Speed is an expression of power. You have 300 lb. plus
football linesmen running sub 4.5 40's primarily due
to the power developed executing Olympic lifts. It is
not possible to do Weightlifting without full range of
motion of the joints. Weightlifters develop tremendous
strength and power through a full range of motion
because their training forces them to. This is a
reflection of the Specificity of Training Principle.
So is the fast twitch muscle fibre training and
nervous system adaptation inherent in lifting
ballistically. Weightlifting's multi joint, standing
erect movments, as a result of lifting dumbells or
barbells from the floor ballistically to overhead,
requires synchronous use of the entire body's
musculature, improving coordination. All of which
properly applied through a well designed program will,
in fairly short order, profoundly improve the athletic
performance of virtually any athlete.
Example:
Karch Kiraly won the 1996 Olympic Beach Volleyball
Championship at 37 yrs. old.
In winter 1994 he put on 20 lbs of lean muscle mass in
four months doing predominately muscle hypertrophy
training initally and progressively moving to a
combination of 20% strength, 20% plyometrics and 60%
Weightlifting.
In 1996, prior to the Olympic tournament, Kiraly had
won 13 tournaments and the King of the Beach round
robin. In Atlanta he weighed in at 220 lbs, was 37
yrs. old, had a well documented 40" vertical jump,
could routinely power snatch 120 kilos three times in
succession, and could traverse the 30x30 sand court in
two strides. Kiraly was generally recognized by his
competitors to be the best conditioned ahtlete in the
AVP tour and the Olympic Tournament.
The Gold medal confirmed it.
UBERCOACH
in sport. Olympic Weightliftings execute ballistic
resistence movements with their feet on the ground and
using the entire body. Although not the only way to
train for power, Weightlifting has been around for so
long, is so well studied and so effective that it has
become the core training method of virtually every
serious post prep school athletic training program in
the US.
Speed is an expression of power. You have 300 lb. plus
football linesmen running sub 4.5 40's primarily due
to the power developed executing Olympic lifts. It is
not possible to do Weightlifting without full range of
motion of the joints. Weightlifters develop tremendous
strength and power through a full range of motion
because their training forces them to. This is a
reflection of the Specificity of Training Principle.
So is the fast twitch muscle fibre training and
nervous system adaptation inherent in lifting
ballistically. Weightlifting's multi joint, standing
erect movments, as a result of lifting dumbells or
barbells from the floor ballistically to overhead,
requires synchronous use of the entire body's
musculature, improving coordination. All of which
properly applied through a well designed program will,
in fairly short order, profoundly improve the athletic
performance of virtually any athlete.
Example:
Karch Kiraly won the 1996 Olympic Beach Volleyball
Championship at 37 yrs. old.
In winter 1994 he put on 20 lbs of lean muscle mass in
four months doing predominately muscle hypertrophy
training initally and progressively moving to a
combination of 20% strength, 20% plyometrics and 60%
Weightlifting.
In 1996, prior to the Olympic tournament, Kiraly had
won 13 tournaments and the King of the Beach round
robin. In Atlanta he weighed in at 220 lbs, was 37
yrs. old, had a well documented 40" vertical jump,
could routinely power snatch 120 kilos three times in
succession, and could traverse the 30x30 sand court in
two strides. Kiraly was generally recognized by his
competitors to be the best conditioned ahtlete in the
AVP tour and the Olympic Tournament.
The Gold medal confirmed it.
UBERCOACH