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Strength Training - A Definition
Vern Gambetta
Posted: 10 September 2008 11:32 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Frans Bosch in several of his presentations has defined Strength Training – as coordination training with resistance. I think that is a good starting point. My adaptation of that definition is as follows: Coordination training with the resistance and mode that is appropriate for the sport or activity trained for. I think this definition gets us away from chasing numbers in terms of maximums and
 
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Vern is currently is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several teams in Major League Soccer as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men’s World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and Director of Athletic Development for the New York Mets. Vern is recognized internationally as an expert in training and conditioning for sport having worked with world class athletes and teams in a wide variety of sports. He is a popular speaker and writer on conditioning topics having lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe. Vern's coaching experience spans 36 years

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Mike Young
Posted: 10 September 2008 12:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I was at the same talk when Frans went over his thoughts on strength. Very interesting to say the least. I don’t really agree about the extreme specificity of his methods but the coordination aspect was a nice way to look at strength development.

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Carl Valle
Posted: 10 September 2008 02:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Mike Young - 10 September 2008 12:52 PM

I was at the same talk when Frans went over his thoughts on strength. Very interesting to say the least. I don’t really agree about the extreme specificity of his methods but the coordination aspect was a nice way to look at strength development.

Frans is another example of poor application and poor training theory. Specific training creates specific stress and joints need to be safeguarded from overtraining. Frans advocates weighted pattern overload. He labels his athletes in the Netherlands as injury prone. Jamaica may have the speed gene but I guess the Netherlands has the injury gene? I don’t buy it.

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Mike Young
Posted: 10 September 2008 02:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Agreed. I can’t say I like his application of the concepts but I did like the way strength was just described as the manifestation of (neuromuscular) coordination.

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mortac8[Ashley Mort]
Posted: 10 September 2008 10:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Seemed to me like a lot of people were drinking Bosch’s cuallaloo juice at that talk. 
Power clean into a stepup? BRILLIANT
Explosive lower body movements onto a slant board with a heavy bag of water on your shoulders?  BRILLIANT

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Lewis almost certainly has his hands on a 3rd consecutive gold medal…Powell good sprinting speed….oh that is huge!

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Carl Valle
Posted: 11 September 2008 01:35 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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mortac8 - 10 September 2008 10:09 PM

Seemed to me like a lot of people were drinking Bosch’s cuallaloo juice at that talk. 
Power clean into a stepup? BRILLIANT
Explosive lower body movements onto a slant board with a heavy bag of water on your shoulders?  BRILLIANT

All one leg of course

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Mike Young
Posted: 11 September 2008 02:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Carl Valle - 11 September 2008 01:35 PM

All one leg of course

The most dangerous looking one was running up boxes / stairs with a weight on your back and then twisting once you’d reached the top stair / box.

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