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June 2, 2009, 11:08pm
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I don’t think contrast training is the main reason why Dennis uses light weights etc. “Coach Shaver does much more ‘power’ development than ‘strength’ development in the weight room. His athletes tend to be beasts on the track but don’t put up huge weight room numbers”. Mike Young
Like John Smith, during the cutdown period I have eliminated the tempo and the weights are also cutdown. The other days are complete rest. But the loading effect of the contrast/overspeed is so strong that even this was pushing the envelope a bit In this portion:
During the first overspeed session, which followed weights (incuding squats) by two days, there was quite a bit of hamstring pain, and this pain continued for 2 days. I was not recovered by the time of the 4X30 on May 20, and not really recovered until after the stimulus session on the 23rd. The weight loads as %1RM are in the 50-70 range that James has mentioned, but the squat session I did was clearly too much.
Before the second contrast training session, I did not do any squats and did not have the hamstring pain, so I need to either cut the squats going into a contrast training session more than I did, or insert more rest after the squats.
This is why Dennis Shaver has the very light weight session you see in the video, I guess.