[b]My only question would be that if Olympic movements have no to transfer of training affect, then how would squats, dead lifts, jumps or medicine ball throws be any different in regards to transfer of training and developing track athletes?? [/b]
Olympic lifting in it’s simplest evaluation is essential jumping with weights and anyone who has an intimate knowledge of the lifts knows that well instructed athletes performing the Olympic lifts from the floor actually create a SSC cycle type of response with similar actualization times in comparison to the jumps, throws and acceleration phase of the sprints.
In my opinion lack of transfer of training would be due to an athlete performing the lifts incorrectly. At the end of the day you can continue not doing the Olympic lifts and I will continue to have the option available to develop strength-speed through this valuable modality.
Welcome back to the boards. Awesome post. Especially like the part in bold.
Although some purists will disagree strongly, I actually think there’s some benefit when the technique is below average. Potentially dangerous? Slightly, if inappropriate loads are used…but still potentially beneficial. I think it’s good to strive for perfect technique while realizing it will take 1000s of reps to get it. And waiting until you have perfect technique to wait to use an exercise is something that isn’t applied to too many other activities and when it is applied you lose out on a lot of potentially beneficial training (and likely never get to the point where the exercise can be perfected). Note this wasn’t directed towards Damon…just some random thoughts that came up from his post.
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