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Before trying to understand the practical applications of max training everyday,variation,force absorbtion,or else I would be curious to discover how to achieve the “environment of positive adaptation” as often as possible,as perhaps this is the real limiting factor to any training recipe,regime,or foolishness…
Isn’t this exactly what Charlie means by the following paragraph:“ A basic principle underlying all training is to bring only a fully regenerated athlete to each training element. The element is then performed at the highest quality possible. This results in athletes performing at very high levels and even achieving personal bests to the point of world record levels in the controlled environment of training.” (CFTS page 153)
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I believe this is actually a point where Charlie and colbert differ, though they at first look the same, I believe they are two different parts of the spectrum. Charlie brings fully recovered athletes to the table which does cause positive adaptation. On the otherhand Colbert believes “I think” that positive adaptation can occur at various points and not necessarily where the body is fully recovered in the same sense as cfts. Therefore if one trains the body to reach positive adaptation at early points increasing the gains. That is just my take I may be way off.
I think it is much the same concept as muscle, but not necessarily accomplished the same way, in terms of bone density, which I may be making an illogical jump here, as I am not familiar with bone strength, but putting the bone under significant force will cause the bone to break down and regenerate into a stronger form is my understand, this my be off as i have barely a rudimentary understanding in this area, so increasing force applied to the bone through weight lifting and plyos upto a very high point will cause eventual benefits, but I am unsure of the recovery needed in this area.
In terms of the area of positive adaptation, I think this is a very fluid and hard to gauge area, you can make estimates of how an athlete will react to stimulous and at many levels the coach has little control of the athlete outside of training, until you get to the elite levels and maybe strong division 1 programs and a couple stellar lower level programs, so this confounds problems even more. Your training needs to mix and match with the level the athlete is at and the outside factors effecting the athlete, to make a truly optimal program I believe is not possible, I am not talking about a very very good program, even great or the top, but optimal, the optimal program would require more testing and too intrusive testing to even be possible. However a workout needs to be flexible enough to adapt to how a n athlete reacts to previous workouts, obviously one should have a fairly good idea how an athlete will react, but not perfect.
So positive adaption can occur at various points, charlie does this with full recovery, which causes positive adaption at high levels.
Colberts method may also give positive adaptions but at how high of levels?
Positive adaption and optimal adaption to me are two different states, and with optimal adaption usually not being obtainable, but very near it can be, and also optimal adaption may not alway be the goal depending on the area being worked on at the time, an overall view of the full program needs to be taken into account.
In most cases I would say no, but it also depends on what your working on and how great the weakness or strength is and fast and of what magnitude you can improve. For example if you have a stellar start but no top end speed well your going to want to work on top speed because getting .01 better at the start is going to do you shyt in comparision. However if you have a shyt start but good top end speed it might be debateable which to work on, obviously these are extreme examples, but it is just to demonstrate that it depends on the magnitude of change you can make.
James, all I ask is for you to make some type of template so we can see your views in action.
If you must just make up a random person with whatever variables you deem necessary, I would just like to see your approach in action. Thanks.
30 sec iso exterme lunge
130% squat overspeed concentric
3-5 min rest
25 lunge altitude drops 10 count hold
ice massage
repeat twice
russian jump lunge to a squat
2 dynamic 40% squat
3 min iso extreme lunge
repeat twice
im not going to explain what this mean at the moment as it has a lot of factors but i will entertain questions in the form of “why did you do this” simply to make it easier on me.
I understand it is a lot more specific than the simple general terms I used.