Optimal power:weight

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          anthony on December 22, 2006 at 10:14 pm #12554

          How can you define the bodyweight where your power:weight ratio is at its best? If you continously keep getting stronger (squats, chins, bench..etc) your bw will eventually creep up (not very much given that you don't eat huge amounts of food). Won't that hurt peroformance on short sprints (100m)?

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          Nick Newman on December 22, 2006 at 10:41 pm #61049

          I guess it is the weight at which your strength to weight ratio (absolute strength) is highest…

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          anthony on December 22, 2006 at 11:05 pm #61050

          well i am 1.74m and today i weighed myself at ~77.2kg ~9%bf. I ve put on 12 kg since i started weight training. My lifts have skyrocketed but now i am wondering if my pursuit to continuously getting stronger (the rate of progress has been declining as expected) will hurt my sprinting times etc.

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          mortac8 on December 22, 2006 at 11:12 pm #61051

          well i am 1.74m and today i weighed myself at ~77.2kg ~9%bf. I ve put on 12 kg since i started weight training. My lifts have skyrocketed but now i am wondering if my pursuit to continuously getting stronger (the rate of progress has been declining as expected) will hurt my sprinting times etc.

          I doubt it.  You are still fairly light.  More strength is almost always good as long as your %bf is in check.

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          Nick Newman on December 22, 2006 at 11:23 pm #61052

          You cant be TOO strong really…although you always want to make sure technique is very good, dont focus all energy on strength if you struggle in other areas…

          if you can clean 1.5 to 2 times your bodyweight and squat 2.5 to 3 times your bodyweight then you are  OK …

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          dma1973 on December 26, 2006 at 3:54 am #61053

          If your power doesn't improve you have to be careful.

          The old analogy I heard was what is the point of a shot putter back squatting 300kg if there standing long jump was 2m.  Strong as ox but slow as sin.

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          thenextbestthing on December 26, 2006 at 9:20 am #61054

          how can you assess power to weight ratios and determine if and how much improvements have been made

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