[quote author="Nick Newman" date="1234474350"]Today was light day just strides over 50m…
I feel a bit sore really, quads and glutes mainly. Heading to Loughborough again tomorrow for final tune up. The UK athletes will no doubt think i’m crazy for training the day before nationals as they all take about 2 days off prior to the meet…Still not sure which method is best as i’ve felt good from both before…
At least since you’ve worked with me, on the rare occasions that we’ve dropped load and volume simultaneously (usually as an experiment or for unusual circumstances) you didn’t perform as well. I think much has to do with what precedes the pre-meet day. You can’t take the pre-meet training day out of the context of the weeks or even months that preceded it. We handle fairly high training loads on a consistent basis which usually necessitates regular stimulus leading up to the day of competition or the likelihood of acute unloading syndrome goes way up.[/quote]
I assume this is the same reason guys like Ilya Ilin (94k weightlifter,)who has some Turk/Bulgarian influence to his training, was purportedly lifting close to world record levels in the Beijing training hall very close to competition time. You have to keep that stimulus in there…..?
Bud Charniga notes in his report of the Beijing games that almost all of the medalists lifted close to their competition weights just days before they were to lift. It looks like many worked up to their first attempts plus some moderate weight squats. He notes many who didn’t, i.e. the Russians as a group, did not have the results of the other countries.
https://www.sportivnypress.com/English/frames.html – go to Report of the 2008 Olympics part 1.