Interview with Tudor Bompa

tamfb · May 30, 2009, 7:47pm

when would you use the overspeed with the contrast method spp or comp?

This is the contrast training thing:

Charlie, PJ, John Smith, and Franno, among others, won’t want any part of this. But Shaver’s results (and this training method originally came from Loren, and it is NOT new) speak for itself. It is a very powerful training method–IF you can SURVIVE the workout.

I cut the volume down by 30-50%, but still, if you try to do anything of even moderate stress 2 days later, I guarantee you WILL injure your hamstring. And, as you can see from the example microcycle, they don’t seem to do any “sprint training” for several days.

No way are you going to do SQ, DL, PC of any intensity that sprinters are normally familiar with for several days and survive with your hamstrings “in normal working condition as supplied by the manufacturer.”