Your experience with AM weights PM speed ?

pierrejean · November 17, 2010, 7:11am

While sprinting may be the most important thing for the Elite, is it safe to always put raw engine improvements (MaxS) on low priority and do them after speed?
I mean, in a drag race, the driver can practice the run all he wants but he still has engine limits.

I have been fighting with the weights for years, and could never really produce good results in the gym when done after speed because it just fried me.
Of course “I shouldn’t look for strength gains” when sprint-training, but then how did Ben get that insane squat ? Was that not a part of his success ? His running style displays enormous levels strength, more than any other.
So if in SPP1 you’re fried with speed, and in SPP2 you’re concerned about endurance and form, and in season you are, well, in season, when do you get the big squat or clean ?

My MaxS therefore stalled and my speed stayed the same. Of course there are a million reasons for this, but a lot of football players who don’t do much raw work in the form of speed training still run well due to insane lifting numbers with a bit of sprints in practice.

If a strength deficit may be the limiting factor in the non-elite sprinter, and strength is the fundamental physical quality on which sprinting relies, could SPP1 Indoor prep be the time to really “hammer” the weights ?

Just throwing another point to the discussion

Regarding biomotor qualities, 100m-200m are events requiring endurance of speed-strength. The best sprinters have different ratios of these biomotor qualities and yet are running the similar times on the track.
Is you Squat results a limiting factor in your sprint results? I’m not sure. Squatting heavy helped Ben to run fast and running fast help him to squat heavy. Everyday i see chicks lifting the same numbers as the sub10sec guys in coached, but who uses the best out of the basic strength and who had the best plan regarding the weight training evolution through the career? It’s better to be fried in the gym than on the track, however, you should look at the volume you are doing on the track it’s maybe too large for you.