[i]Originally posted by juggalo[/i]
Kebba,You had mentioned that you have had “higher level athletes” dinged up and with Dan’s advice they come back within 5-15 days at or near PR levels.
I was wondering if you could elaborate on or give examples on how you utilized Dan’s advice to elicit these results?
Thanks in advance!
Basically when i first heard Dan speak in 1996 he said that Donovan sustained an injury in 96 a few weeks before the games…. they’re periodized the train from that point to the games but also **periodized the therapy**
Dan said, “people are animals and in the jungle if you break a leg you can’t just sit there or you’ll be someone else’s food.”
made sense to me then and I use that philosophy as the starting pt in injury situations or when they’re just beat up. It also is why finding activities that are compatible and complimentary are so impt. you can do training that’s restorative (psychologically, endocrine-wise, etc) without going to complete rest…. so then rest became relative (some of this I got from listening to Loren Seagrave in the early 90’s as well)….
so from a therapy/injury combeack perspective we’ve tried to stay active as possible and maintain the quality of the CNS/speed-power wk so that when whatver injury or problem is manageable we can perform at high levels…. this can take any and all forms of jumps, throws, lifts, and runs (if the injury permits)…. but the key is you’ve got to maintain firing and synchronization patterns, rate of force development, propioception, amt of force production, eccentric, elastic, and absloute strength qualities….
hope that helps.
KT