Could you be more specific as to how you implement this?
Any single limb exercise can be used, the load is sub max, so all reps are unassisted, and the eccentric is 6 seconds long.
Loading is planned as it would be in normal circumstances.
Once the injured side can be loaded, we no longer aim to progress the contralateral side, and rather “wait” for the injured side to catch up.
Do you find that you run into issues with muscle tone in that contralateral limb, since the tension is held for so long?
Have you encountered any situations where the athlete has developed a different/further imbalance because of the training done to that contralateral limb?
Acutely? Absolutely none compared to traditional weight training.
One of the coaches ran into problems. However, on reflection, the choice of exercises weren’t appropriate (reverse hyper), and this athlete was out for a long, long time. He was training like this for a year or more. I think the longest I used this was maybe 12 weeks. Also, this athlete is a complete freak, so he had significant hypertrophy one side of his lumbar erectors in no time, which eventually led to some back pain.
Didn’t delay his return or anything, but caused a mild problem that cleared once we offloaded his LB.
Did 275 for a easy set of 8 and 365 for a very easy single. Big squat day - 9 working sets… Injured Aug 9, surgery Aug 19 - 16 weeks and 1 day post op…
May be putting my program to the test again, number 1 outside lb in 2011 draft has a partial torn acl. He will have surgery soon, any chance he can workout for scouts in mid april?
Being rated that high there’s no need for him to workout and risk something happening.
4months is way too short to expect to perform any of the change of direction field work at high intensity. Best case scenario is that a 40 might be doable; however he wouldn’t even be remotely close to PR level because that would require that he initiate the sprint training in February at the latest.
Play it safe, his stock is too high to risk anything. the film and interviews should secure his status.
He’s able to run now but they decided surgery would be the best option for his future. After the surgery process we will look at his options, I think it would help if he’s able to do something in late April because his SR season wasn’t the strongest. We will attack the upper body and healthy leg hard while keeping him lean and mobility high - may use some max strength ems along the way.
The ARP people heavily overstate its benefits. Do it the right way - get surgery, rehab properly through the appropriate progressions, etc. While the Pulsed DC current used with ARP can be helpful, it ain’t no miracle cure.
I sent several of my clients to Dennis and it seems to work but the cost is very high. I do agree that it’s not a miracle cure. I know CJ Spiller used it before the combine to help cure his turf toe.
Squats 3x6 255-265-285, 2x1 355,405
405 was a joke!!!