If you’re not working from a significant height, why must you just drop?
i thought it could help with reactivity, just trying to rebound as quickly as possible.
Yes, thats what the down, over, over with hurdles does- but that’s not a drop jump
ah u make me feel so foolish, yet in an enlightening way, thanks for your patience
You could do some iso at the weakest point but I’d think the contribution would be greatest at the point where the most tension can be generated.
Ben was not training for absolute strength as much as his absolute strength was affected by the tremendous forces generated by the sprinting. We’ve discussed this in the general vs specific strength threads.
Charlie, is this reflected in the limiting of his max strength work to sets of six reps?
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Not sure I follow, are you thinking of the squats? If so that might be a starting point of such a thought, though perhaps more driven by fear than smarts (though they might be the same thing!)
Yes, squats. I am assuming, maybe incorrectly so, that if you were strictly seeking absolute strength in Ben’s training you would have gone to even lower reps in the max strength phase. This not to mention your point about the risk of going to lower reps and hence heavier weights=greater risk.
Yes, the squats were limited to 6 though the bench, being safer, went to lower numbers (and more challenge). The squats were very easy for him at 6 for a significant period as his times continued to drop.
Thanks, this question is a bit off the subject. In moving from phase to phase, is it necessary to hit on the first phase plyos of jumps up to the pit/jumps to boxes to pit, etc. with those who did this during indoor season-we are in outdoor now or do we just move into the second phase of plyos?
I’d just move on to the second phase of plyos.
Question charlie, how many exercises in a strength session would ben end up performing?
Thanks, does the athlete actually jump backwards/forwards from the 40cm box in addition to the hurdle hops?
That’s a good question I am a little unclear on third plyo phase as well.
Starts on top, then down (forward) off the box and over 2 or 3 hurdles.
(If you were going off the back of a box, it would be for reps up and down off the box, for 10 to 20 reps.)
Although it is impossible to say, depending on season length, how long I get to work with the athlete, age, sport, etc. I generally use two General Prep Phases a year. Again, depending on the athletes, the phases can go anywhere from 3 weeks up to 8 weeks and beyond. I hate even trying to describe this because I have to be general, but you know how that feels 
. As in my basketball off-season training I put in two GPP phases. These are often used as transition phases, mentally and physically along with preparing the athletes. This gives us a chance to get outside and forget about specific measuring and calculating and just get at it. Kids love this, and it works great on expanding capacity levels and lets us target the entire body. It’s my favorite phases!
Also, you get more time in GPP if the athletes are younger.
Absolutly, at that point it isn’t even really considered a phase, it’s just fun and games and training. As the athlete gets older and it becomes a phase, it takes on different characteristics all together.
if for some reason the first phase of plyos couldn’t be performed during the indoor season, or at least properly, due to slight irritations here and there and niggles, would you still more to the next phase of plyos for outdoors, or would you “repeat” the previous ones till properly done?
thanks!
I’d prob move on but a little lower and a little less, unless the early accel work was so compromised that I had to go back over that as well. If so I’d try to come up with a compromise combination. Really would depend on the specific situation.