Sprinter's Symptoms and Solutions

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The weights would still not be considered specific to sprinting. However, they would probably be considered more specific to sprinting than what CF recommended depending on how you look at it. CF recommended olympic lifts. Dan and Chris do not . They use things like reactive squats (CF may have considered these specific) to get some of the same benefits of the olympic lifts.

Also, you don’t have all the details regarding Drob. No one does and there are a lot of assumptions being made. I am not defending anyone or minimizing any thing that happened. I don’t have enough information to do either one. There are plenty of people (respected strength and conditioning coaches) who recommend looking at the innosport site from their own websites and have mentioned that they have learned some good things from it. Some of these people are even respected members of CF.com. I find that interesting since the site has been inactive for years.

My point is that there are often things we can learn from many different places. A lot of times, you will see the same underlying principles. Does that mean you should drop everything CF and do everything innosport? No, of course not. Take a look at things if you want to and see if there is something valuable. If you do not, that is fine but I don’t believe any of us should speak poorly of others. Unfortunately, this tends to happen on all forums.

I am not intending to disparage anyone, but when someone starts a trollworthy thread on Charlie’s forum bringing up this topic out of the blue, then an associate steps in to defend the said philosophy, I think it’s fair to state the obvious and encourage people to understand CF’s overall perspective on weights for speed before taking their shopping cart elsewhere (Innosport) and stuffing some random advice in it.

Context is king- and I defy you find a better explanation of weights for speed than Charlie’s lectures. Have you watched them?

On that note, plenty of people have lots of understanding about what happened with Drob, and it would be really interesting to hear them openly discuss what they tried, what did and didn’t work, and what they learned from the process. I don’t see any of that happening, which is a sorry expression of ego. I have no respect for those who can’t admit their failures and have no interest in anything they say. Failure is not a reflection on one’s current skill set, and in fact demonstrates growth and learning, something that I haven’t seen any public evidence of from a group that seemed quite happy to associate themselves with success when it was convenient.

Full disclosure: my guy pulled his hamstring two days ago- MY FAULT!