EMS works wonders, and I’m hoping it will ‘save’ me this winter. The explosive strength program is really intense for the hamstrings (and I hold the duration of the intensity for more than 4", by cranking it up, or going two pushes up, one push down, if I’m reaching my tolerance limit, for up to 12-14 seconds), and I feel my legs “go” as a result of this especially in the longer sprints.
It’s true that I wasn’t using it as much previous seasons, except for two summers ago when I was extremely busy with workshops, and I just trained a little and EMS’ed each and every night for one month prior to national, and then on the day of the competition I split the 400 in a 200pr (of 25.7"), way ahead of the national champion, and then hit the wall at 250m… :o
I’m thinking (hoping) that if I use the EMS as much as I can (and I can do better than what I’m doing… I just get humanly lazy sometimes), with the existing weather of 1 degree outside and not much chance to do speed work, while working on longer reps with short recoveries for that hard part of the 400, I could see some results for indoors at least.
We’ll see…
Charlie’s drill… His main intention that day was to make me to dorsiflex better, so he did a bounding motion (not covering too much ground at all), while toes pointing up as much as possible, but as he bounded, he also cycled each leg through quickly, like a fast A skip (strongly dorsiflexing as the leg went up)… ugghhh it’s reallly hard to explain, I wish I had my camera with me.
Oh; I’ll try and draw it today, showing the consecutive movements. 