yes , very wild
so whats wrong with jumpsquats and Dynamic box squats ?
nothing, just know when to use them.
how about once a week in a high CNS stress day. AM sprints, PM DEsquats+ some posterior chain work.
the other day, ill do powercleans and heavy squats and unilateral squats for high reps.
sound ?
Jump squats with weights are dangerous.
Box squats are meant to be used to develop starting strength - ie pause when your backside touches the bench. What do you mean by dynamic box squats?
that one hell of an ineffecient way to train starting strength.
James why dont you ever respond when people ask you about your sprinting ability or education?
The point is finite CNS resources.
The ‘specificity’ argument is moot and the greatest benefit from any such activity works against you when other more important stimulus/activity is already in place.
because it has nothing to do with the discussion.
yet you can not name siad resources or prove their depletion after physically intense training. the evidence actually points to the CNS being semi-infinte (not infinte but more than you could expend). here is a pm i sent to someone asking a question about dailiy training at high intensity,volume, velocity, and load.
this is a complex subject, but it will help if you break it up into biological and neurological factors even though the two are intertwined dependent on one another for the sake of theory it is easier to distinguish the two. ask youself first what is required for movement, simple a nerve impulse and energy to contract the muscle tissue (ATP). provide these two things and you will have contraction. the greatest thing inhibiting us from training more often at a higher volume, frequency, velocity, and load is our bodies own inhibitive systems. many on this site will talk about the mysterious CNS fatigue, as if it were a system that could be depleted of some vital substrate necesary for its healthy function. no such substrate exsists. your CNS inhibits itself via inhibitory interneurons (thats what google is for, look it up). it limits itself to prevent injury. i also theorize, but cannot at the moment confirm, that feedback from afferent nerves inervating muscle tissue can also contibute to CNS fatigue, ie if your muscle is damaged or under great stress it will
“tell” the CNS to inhibit itself.
this synthesis has two major implications. one, we must teach the CNS to not inhibit itself. this is achieved by placing the body under condtions which force it to responds in a certain way independent of “fatigue”. reflexes. simply, reflexes act independent of normal CNS fatiguing patterns. if you perform a plyometric action a stretch reflex is activated via the alpha/gamma efferent/afferent nervous loop. the result is an inhibition of antagonist muscular groups and stimulation of powerful contractions of agonist muscle groups around the joint in motion. this will happen regardless of “fatigue” as defined by many on this board.
two, we must address the issue of “negative” inhibitory feedback from the afferent muscle nerves. one way is to reduce inflamation (damaged tissue) by increasing intermuscular effecientcy. this is a complex topic but basically it is my belief that tissue damage does not have to occur to produce growth and that it is actually detremental to rapid, injury free, maximal gains. we can also control the muscles response to fatigue and injury. when muscle tissue is damaged or fatigued in constricts/contracts as a protective mechanism. contracted tissue is less able to absorb force and therfore is less able to generate force. muscle that remains elongated even under conditions of fatigue and injury have a greater opportuinity to create force and a lesser chance of becoming injuried or sustaining further injury. this is a neurological issue and as such can be trained, restructured, reporgrammed. one example of this type of work in training is performing a set of isometric holds in the extreme joint angle after a set of “work” such as the bench or plyometric variations of it. your muscle is fatigued yet it is forced to continue to contract in an elongated state.
the two things i have mentioned are just parts of being able to train daily and even multi-daily at a high intensity, volume, load, and veolcity. the issue is complex and this type of training will not work for long if everything is not in place. diet, training , rest, everything must be in place.
I would love to see any job interviews you may have. Would you show up in a mexican luchadore mask to protect your identity and background? Or would you be more along the lines of the Wizard of Oz?
…ok??
James,
I would like to know some of your background as well. You write a lot of detailed posts, but it would lend you some authority if we knew that you had either formal education, experience, or both.
im sure it would, but then you would be focusing on who i am and not waht im saying. it shouldnt matter who i am only what im saying. i take it that alot of this is over your head… well then go look it up for yourself. ive never understood many of your reatctions to something that is different or odd. is it not logical to reaserch for yourself using what ive said as a launching point. determine for yourself the valididity dont rely on my word, credibilty or lack therof.
He doesn’t have to show even 1 certificate of “qualification” in my opinion., Niether does he need to be sprinting 10.4.
More like; How much has James improved his times in the last 18 months since employing various factors of his evolved training phillosophies ? (I doubt he had every single same phillosophy even 5 years ago.)
James, have you been able to improve your 60 or 100m sprint time in the last 18 months?
I think this is the question that is important. I don’t need to know the time you run, just how many 0.01’s of a second improvement?
Here is my scenario;
Last month I equalled my times of 4 and 5 years ago. Last year was my slowest ever. I was 0.5 sec slower than my 60m pb. I probably had cumalative fatigue and messed up neuro-logical firing or something. Anyway, I improved 0.45 early this year, by completely changing my training, and then I stopped improving again about a month ago.
James,
I’m all for you maintaining your privacy.
If you have a degree or certification, just say what it is, I’m not asking for proof. I can choose to believe it or not.
If you run at some reasonable level, give us a rough idea what level, or what progress you have made with your approach.
to be honest i dont want to even go into that but i will let you know that in a month of training i have increased my vert near a foot droped my bodyfat and increased muscle with a gross gain of 16 lbs of mass, all within month… well a month and 10 days. those have been my most impressive gains to date, but my training enviornment has been less than ideal lately. im actually moving back to california in a month and hopefully things will be better there (they were before i moved to florida). better results have been achieved by others using these same principals.
Increasing your vert that much in that amount of time is pretty impressive.
What about your sprint times?
I’m sorry but I like seeing something that is just me and to me the words mean just as much as the mouth they come from. Does James need to run 10.2 or have a phd to be right on his ideas no. There are plenty of very athletically taletned individuals who do not understand training philosophy, there are i am sure individuals with phds who have gone astray from correct reasoning for whatever reason.
But why dont you read every peice of junk mail that you get for stocks or weight loss or watever you get them for, well one may be that you dont need them and another is that you simly dont trust the sender.
Anyone can make up something that sounds half decent reading through a few books. But James you on multiple occasions critique people for not having an indepth understanding of a variety of subjects which to actually get an indepth understanding of would take more than the amount of years youve been alive.
Am I saying your ideas are wrong, no, I dont know them well enough or researched them well enough so who am I to say. And even if you dont have a phd in some sports science related field does that change what your ideas are, no. But understanding someones background helps place their training in context.
Thats the whole point of degrees, to gain trust, to show that you are willing to make the sacrifice of studying, to gain credibility, in terms of intelligence is there any difference between someone with 119 credits and no degree or 120 credits and a degree, no, but thats not the point. You can be smart and knowledgeable on a subject with or without degrees, but you ask people to research your ideas and find out for themselves.
If every person on the board asked everyone else to research their ideas on their own nothing would get done.
So if you could place your training philosophy within the context of your credentials whether it be degrees or certifications as well as within your current training progression or those that you train, it makes it a lot easier for people to understand where you are coming from. As you probably read in the cljackson thread understanding training has a lot to do with the context of the individuals you train, so if people new your training stage or those you train it would be perhaps easier to implement your ideas.