I am just curious how many of you guys perform ol's three days per week, i know many coaches perfer to do ol, squat, press each session m-w-f, and some coaches just perform them once or twice a week?
3 a week…sun, tues, thursday. That way we get an extra day recovery before a saturday meet.
I almost always OL 3x a week- Mon, Wed, Fri even if there is a meet on Saturday….some times I'll even OL the morning of a home meet. Note that by lifting on Sunday you're doing a meet and then lifting the next day. Something that can obviously be done just fine but you could be driving the stake further into the ground than if you lifted the day before a meet.
Mike, when you lift on the day of a home meet, what type of weight and vol do you use? I assume light and extremely low volume?
We have a couple facilities that have a weight room at or very near the track. I'll sometimes do some hang cleans before a race. I have found almost a direct correlation between hang clean proficiency on any give day and acceleration ability. Hang cleans and other OLs are probably just a good marker of current CNS strength.
Mike, when you lift on the day of a home meet, what type of weight and vol do you use? I assume light and extremely low volume?
We have a couple facilities that have a weight room at or very near the track. I'll sometimes do some hang cleans before a race. I have found almost a direct correlation between hang clean proficiency on any give day and acceleration ability. Hang cleans and other OLs are probably just a good marker of current CNS strength.
could u get the same thing by doing a few slj or hurdle hops?
Mike, when you lift on the day of a home meet, what type of weight and vol do you use? I assume light and extremely low volume?
We have a couple facilities that have a weight room at or very near the track. I'll sometimes do some hang cleans before a race. I have found almost a direct correlation between hang clean proficiency on any give day and acceleration ability. Hang cleans and other OLs are probably just a good marker of current CNS strength.
could u get the same thing by doing a few slj or hurdle hops?
In my experience with that feeling of additional power, no. Or at least it is not as a profound effect as I get from OLs.
could u get the same thing by doing a few slj or hurdle hops?
Yea probably. Ideally I'd do a couple medium/heavy hang cleans then some jumps afterward.
like cf and others have said i want my warmup to consistent, if u go to nationals or conference theres no weight room then what?? u can alway do slj or tuck jumps anywhere.
Yea you adjust to what you have. So if I go to a meet that doesn't have adjustable heights on the foot pedals, should I never adjust my block pedals just so things are always consistent?
Yea you adjust to what you have. So if I go to a meet that doesn't have adjustable heights on the foot pedals, should I never adjust my block pedals just so things are always consistent?
