[Carl Valle]

Carl Valle on May 11, 2012 at 9:51 pm #18359

Power has many different flavors, but the stronger the flavor, the better. The most interesting aspect of power today is I am seeing less and less power development. Excuses such as movement quality, transfer, power endurance (repeated weak ability for proponents), regeneration needs, and keeping people healthy seem to be the rage. My concern is that without power, we are going to continue to see

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[Daniel Andrews]

Daniel Andrews on May 13, 2012 at 6:10 am #116301

Carl

I believe strongly a lot of poor results are the result of training in isolation. Training one component at the expense of others. Let’s take work capacity/endurance/stamina as an example, I wrote before that coaches shouldn’t look at work capacity in the sense of how much work they get done, but in terms of power endurance, but even then that training should be geared to event specificity. Playing with volume, densities, and load to extract a number of high quality, high intensity efforts in practice or competition. Fixing differences between any two given athletes takes time, patience, persistence, and adherence to good training models with different training plans.