Supertraining Resistance Training For Different Purposes

The regimes of resistance training classically used to produce strength, power, muscular endurance or muscle hypertrophy may be summarised in the form of of recommendations based on research and experience (Note that this table refers to dynamic and not isometric training regimes).

This scheme, however, does not take into account the complexity of the phenomenon of strength or the other strength-related qualities of neuromuscular performance, such as strength-speed, explosive strength, flexibility-strength and strength-endurance.

It is the major objective of this book to investigate the scope of sport specific strength training in far greater depth than implied by the generalised scheme of Table 1.1 and thereby enable the exercise professional to apply this information in practice.

Later in this text, it will be shown that the effective and safe prescription of resistance training should begin with an understanding of force-time and related curves concerning the patterns of force production in sport and resistance training. On this basis we can identify several major objectives of strength training, namely:

• To increase maximal or absolute strength

• To increase explosive strength (large force in minimal time)

• To increase the Rate of Force Production

• To enable the muscles to generate large forces for a given period

• To enable the muscles to sustain small forces for a prolonged period

• To increase muscle and connective tissue hypertrophy

The summary of training approaches may be adequate for the average personal trainer or coach dealing with the average client or lower level athlete, but it needs to be expanded upon to take into account the objectives stated above. In particular, it needs to distinguish between methods concentrating on neural adaptation versus the different types of hypertrophy and muscle endurance. This is done at length in later chapters.

Methods involving a large training volume (many repetitions) are referred to as extensive methods and any phase which relies on a high volume of low resistance training is referred to as an extensification or accumulation phase. Conversely, high intensity, low volume methods are known as intensive methods and a phase comprising this type of training is referred to as an intensification phase. The early stages of training usually begin with an extensive phase to lay the foundation for the greater demands imposed by the subsequent intensive phase with heavy resistance and few repetitions In fact, the long-term training system known as periodisation is based on cyclically alternating extensive and intensive phases of exercise chosen to timeously enhance given components of fitness such as strength, strength-speed and strength-endurance.

The traditional approaches to strength conditioning usually regard the following variables as the most important in a weight training programme:

• magnitude of the load

• number of repetitions

• number of sets

Training programmes based entirely on these variables, however, are seriously incomplete and limited in their long-term effectiveness, especially as a form of supplementary training for other sports. Factors such as the following must also be taken into consideration:

• the type of strength fitness required

• the type of muscle contraction involved (isometric, concentric, eccentric)

• the speed of movement over different phases of movement

• the acceleration at critical points in the movement

• the rest intervals between repetitions, sets and workouts

• active versus passive rest/recuperation intervals

• the sequence of exercises

• the relative strength of agonists and antagonists, stabilisers and movers

• the development of optimal static and dynamic range of movement

• the strength deficit of given muscle groups

• the training history of the individual

• the injury history of the individual

• the level of sports proficiency of the individual.

The last-mentioned factor is of exceptional importance, because the advanced athlete responds to a given training regime very differently from a novice. For instance, the exact sequencing of strength, strength-speed and hypertrophy means in a workout or microcycle is of little consequence during the first weeks or months of a beginner's training, but is very important to a more experienced athlete. Moreover, loads as small as 40% of 1RM can significantly enhance the strength of a beginner, but have no strengthening effect on an elite athlete.

Extract from Supertraining by Mel Siff.
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