When we think of terrifying opponents in combat sports, we often picture someone muscular with broad shoulders, perhaps a fast-twitch fighter who packs dynamite in his hands, capable of ending a fight with a single clean punch. I beg to differ. The most terrifying archetype in fighting is the relentless and unbreakable pressure fighter. What …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuMCW4Rlmx4&ab_channel=PowerTraining There appears to be a certain hotspot where endurance correlates with one’s strength level. When discussing compound lifts, Zatsiorsky stated in his work Science and Practice of Strength Training that this equates to roughly 25% of one’s 1RM (one repetition maximum on a given exercise). In other words, if we were to take two …
The stretch-shortening cycle (SSC), sometimes referred to as reactive strength, is your ability to utilize elastic energy. Why is this important? For the simple reason that it allows us to produce more power (more on this later). Any movement that has an eccentric (stretching) and a concentric (shortening) contraction of musculature, has the potential to …
