[quote author="Matt Norquist (WashedupDec)" date="1255983916"][quote author="Nick Newman" date="1255941755"]He’s a 400m runner…personally that i love that style of lifting for a 400m runner…i am friends with a couple of top 400m athletes and they also lift like that…
I sometimes train with a guy here who emailed Clyde Hart and asked him for their training plan. Clyde emailed him back with the entire years plan from 2008 for his 400m runners. He now follows their program and the lifting is very simular…
Example, they finish each weight workout right now with lifting a certain squat percentage as many times as they can…sometimes 25 times…killer…
Would that kind of finishing exercise have adverse effects for athletes doing other events? Or would it have no effect? Or would it possibly have some hypertrophy effect?[/quote]
Well, being a decathlete you certainly need some kind of 400m + sprinting shape. I would probably add that kind of thing into a special endurance type day when you get to that in training. I think the two compliment each other. But even for a dec guy speed/ power and explosive are probably the most trained…[/quote]
Definitely true. What I might do is on my lower intensity lifting days – do a finishing set of both a lower body lift and an upper body lift that is either till failure, or most possible reps in a minute – with a load at around 60% of 1RM. I will try it out tomorrow in the weight room and post about it.