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    Reply To:Hypertrophy is slowing me down!! What should I do?

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    MORTONB@mail.etsu.edu on March 7, 2012 at 3:33 am #115160

    If I had to take a guess I wouldn’t say hypertrophy is what’s got you feeling slow. I would first say it’s because you are fatigued which normally happens because you are stressing your CNS. Also have you done any tests (fly 30m, 30m from blocks, 5 bound jump)to get a baseline of what you can do when you are feeling good and have they diminshed or is this just a feeling? Also I would look to better organize your week. I’m thinking the 200, 150 day is pretty fast since your only doing
    2 sets of three and even dropping down to 120s sometimes.
    So this means you are hitting the weights on monday, sprinting tuesday, plyos and weights on wed, weights on monday and sprints again on friday with weights again on saturday. This can lead to overtraining because it’s alot of high intensity work. Even though thats the nature of the 60-100, you can still over train if it’s not organized correctly.
    Maybe one way you can setup your week is

    General prep
    M-Acceleration and weights (heavy)
    Tuesday-Strength or circuit work
    Wed-Acceleration and weights(heavy)
    Thursday-Strength or circuit
    Friday-Srength Speed(hills or sleds)and weights(heavy)
    Sat and sun-rest

    As your general work becomes more specific and your strength becomes speed endurance you may want to change the theme of each day to stop from overtraining.

    Specific
    M-Speed Endruance and weights(light and fast)
    T-Acceleration
    W-Rest(Olympic Based lifts such as power cleans, jerks, snatches etc..)
    TH-Acceleration
    Fri-Speed Strength and weights(Heavy in the weightroom)

    I like to go heavy on friday because it’s followed by two days of rest. If I go heavy on monday rhythm of contraction may be throwed off and lead to strained hamstrings etc.. This opinion on lifting heavy isn’t based on research just my practical experience as a coach. I know they will be recovered from the weekend and it’ll be safe to do speed work on monday. I haven’t seen any research that says squatting heavy and doing speed afterwards can lead to pulled or strained hamstrings, just experience (3 strained hamstrings). And since I changed to this model I luckily haven’t had any strains or pulls.I just like to keep the speed of contraction fast and get heavy at the end of the week when i know they will get two days of rest afterwards.

    I hope this helps and there are plenty of other ways to get better this is just how I choose to do it based on my athletes and their fitness.

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