Smolov Squatting plan??

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I recently read the smolov squattin plan and was wondering about its efeectiveness for sprinters and developing power/strenght.

What do you all think about it?
My squat at the moment is about 130kg and i really need to up this figure to around 200kg and i hope that i can do this this coming winter. I was hoping smolov can help?

Opinions please?

http://www.dragondoor.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?rm=mode3&articleid=80
http://www.joeskopec.com/smolov.html

Also in terms of a bench program what would you recommend? Ive seen other calculators thats similiar such as
http://www.timinvermont.com/fitness/russian.htm?weight=225
and another on tmag by thibadeau. Would anyone recommend these or have any others?
thanks

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I don’t see how you can squat hard 3x/week. I’m not a fan of these “russian routines” in general… these programs seem to be for the ‘enhanced athlete’. If you did do the Smolov workout, I doubt you’d have any gas left for sprinting.

I’d look at stuff from Westside-barbell or elitefts. If you want books, I’d recommend Modern Trends in Strength by Poliquin, Power by Fred Hatfield, and To Squat or Not to Squat by Ricky Dale Crain.

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what mortac said, if you do the smolov program, you won’t be feeling up to do much of anything else, besides eat and sleep.

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at the moment im following a modified WS4SB training plan but i need to work on my squat a lot and my bench and i think im gonna do this over the winter.
I wanna hit 200kg asap