I was reading through old posts and i came across this one from charlie
“I think the first part is right. As for football and Basketball, the SE requirement is nil and even top speed is somewhat limited (unless you’re very slow!) However speed reserve is very important in football. This reserve can shift much of the sport’s demands out of the high and into med or even low int catagory for much of the requirement. Running speed of receivers on patterns is usually 85% of max (med) with High int usually comming on cuts (decelleration).
Basketball is a good candidate for weight dominant work as it is almost pure power.”
it was off a post from like 2004. but i was wondering if anyone could help me interperet that. i play pro football and am a reciever and want to incorporate what hes saying here into my training.
Well, “speed reserve” is the cushion you have between your maximum velocity and the velocity you need to generate to get the job done. So I think what Charlie was saying is that while you may rarely need to reach incredible top speed during a game, you probably still need to develop that quality in your training, so that you can keep sprinting throughout a game while staying within your comfort zone. If you and your immediate opponent can both sprint at 9m/psec (for instance) and his absolute best is 9m/psec, while yours is 10m/psec, then you are going to be cruising and you’ll be able to keep backing up at that pace time and time again, while he’s going to be blowing a fuse the first time and may have trouble backing it up next time you take it to him. Something like that.
On the subject of SE (special endurance or speed endurance) that’s pretty much talking about holding an extremely high velocity for quite a long way, maybe 120 to 150 metres and beyond (depending on terminology of each coach SE1, SE2 etc refer to a certain range). He probably means that sort of speed endurance is not required in football because it’s not relevant to the game situation.
Acceleration and deceleration qualities are probably more specific to the requirements of the game. You would be the best judge of that:)
Anyways, I’m sure CF will spot this thread and reply himself. He’s worked with a lot of NFL teams as a consultant.
thanx alot for that. so i would think that heavy eccentrics and isos in the low squat position would help for the high intensity deceleration recievers do and just continue to work on upping my speed so my 85% will be as fast as somones 95%.