Energy Production Summary By now, you probably understand that energy production and conditioning is not simple. When peopte often ask me, "What do I need to do improve my conditioning?" my answer usually takes them by surprise when I tell them that I have no idea. Now don't get me wrong, with the right tests and assessments I can certainly give them the right answer and provide a plan that will dramatically improve their conditioning. The problem, however, is that without knowing anything about why someone's conditioning is poor or what their level of physical preparation is to begin with, it is next to impossible to give any real meaningful answers to such an open ended question. Just like the sport itself, energy production and conditioning come from many different abilities. As you learned from the discussion above, conditioning is about how fast you can produce energy, how long you can produce it for, how much total energy you're capable of generating, and of course, how efficiently you use it. On a fundamental level, all of these different components are responsible for determining if you're an explosive fighter who can last bell to bell or a fighter who gasses out and gets beat by fighters with less skill. So what is it that gives you the ability to produce more energy, produce it faster, and produce it longer? Let's look at the answer. Energy Systems Overview The next chapters and sections in this book will give you the answer to the question above and provide you with a detailed blueprint to crank up your body's energy production like never before. You'll learn the secrets to increasing the power, capacity, and total potential of energy production and most importantly, you'll learn how to do so in a way that will specifically improve your performance as a fighter. Before I give you the answers you've been waiting for and the secrets to my entire training program, however, I need to give you a little more detailed view of what exactly determines the different components of conditioning in the first place. Understanding this simple principle and the model of energy production below is one of the real keys to unlocking the mysteries of cond:+ioning and developing a program that's based specifically on your own needs. If you look at the center of the circle in fig. 6, you'll see there are three main circles. These three circles represent the body's three different energy systems and their specific development is what determines what kind of conditioning you have. It's important to think of them as three independent and yet overlapping systems, each of them with differing energy production capabilities. Ultimate conditioning is about creating precisely the right balance of development between all of them and how they work together. This is the real secret of conditioning that most fighters, and even most coaches, don't truly understand. If you are interested in advanced exercise programs, check out SAQStivity Pro Fitness 123 Eisenhower Lane S Lombard, IL 60148 (630) 620-7277
Energy Production Summary By now, you probably understand that energy production and conditioning is not simple. When peopte often ask me, "What do I need to do improve my conditioning?" my answer usually takes them by surprise when I tell them that I have no idea. Now don't get me wrong, with the right tests and assessments I can certainly give them the right answer and provide a plan that will dramatically improve their conditioning. The problem, however, is that without knowing anything about why someone's conditioning is poor or what their level of physical preparation is to begin with, it is next to impossible to give any real meaningful answers to such an open ended question. Just like the sport itself, energy production and conditioning come from many different abilities. As you learned from the discussion above, conditioning is about how fast you can produce energy, how long you can produce it for, how much total energy you're capable of generating, and of course, how efficiently you use it. On a fundamental level, all of these different components are responsible for determining if you're an explosive fighter who can last bell to bell or a fighter who gasses out and gets beat by fighters with less skill. So what is it that gives you the ability to produce more energy, produce it faster, and produce it longer? Let's look at the answer. Energy Systems Overview The next chapters and sections in this book will give you the answer to the question above and provide you with a detailed blueprint to crank up your body's energy production like never before. You'll learn the secrets to increasing the power, capacity, and total potential of energy production and most importantly, you'll learn how to do so in a way that will specifically improve your performance as a fighter. Before I give you the answers you've been waiting for and the secrets to my entire training program, however, I need to give you a little more detailed view of what exactly determines the different components of conditioning in the first place. Understanding this simple principle and the model of energy production below is one of the real keys to unlocking the mysteries of cond:+ioning and developing a program that's based specifically on your own needs. If you look at the center of the circle in fig. 6, you'll see there are three main circles. These three circles represent the body's three different energy systems and their specific development is what determines what kind of conditioning you have. It's important to think of them as three independent and yet overlapping systems, each of them with differing energy production capabilities. Ultimate conditioning is about creating precisely the right balance of development between all of them and how they work together. This is the real secret of conditioning that most fighters, and even most coaches, don't truly understand. If you are interested in advanced exercise programs, check out SAQStivity Pro Fitness 123 Eisenhower Lane S Lombard, IL 60148 (630) 620-7277
When rehabilitating bad backs, there is often a clinical emphasis on increasing back muscle strength. Interestingly, several studies have shown that muscle strength cannot predict who will have future back troubles (Biering-Sorenson, 1984). On the other hand, Luoto and colleagues (1995) have shown that muscular endurance (as opposed to strength) protective. Further, many is studies that have attempted to trial strengthening approaches have chosen exercises designed to injure the back - for example, including sit-ups to strengthen the abdominal muscles. No wonder they reported that a positive health effect was not achieved or worse - more bad backs were created! Of course back and abdominal strength are important for performance but different rules apply for the back than for other body parts. Power (force times velocity) should come from the hips. The risk rises when power is developed in the spine. The implication that when high spine is torques are developed, the velocity of spine motion must be low. Conversely, high spine velocity is safe only when the torques are low. Weightlifters develop enormous hip power but virtually no spine power (high force and low velocity) because the spine is locked into a static position while the high velocity angular motion is provided by the hips. What is so interesting is that when the technique of workers or athletes is examined, generally those who have bad backs are the ones who load their backs to higher levels performing the same task. Evidence on rowers has documented those with the "hard catch" tend to be the ones with symptomatic backs. Workers with back troubles tend to lift using their back extensors and hamstring muscles. They tend not to use their hip extensors. A study of national class powerlifters has shown that those with lower back moments, but higher hip moments, lifted closer to the world record. Similar findings have been made in Olympic weightlifters. A healthy back, and a high performance back, depends on highly functional hips, and other parts of the body - these are also addressed in this book. There is no question that strength is important for performance. But if muscle strength cannot be directed through the skeletal linkage so that weaker joints are not forced to absorb some energy, so that the force projections ultimately have the maximal effect elsewhere in the body, it is of little value. The training approaches justified in this book develop multiarticular strength to optimize performance. They are not designed to hypertrophy muscle. Further, there are several prerequisites that form a foundation of back function prior to efforts to seriously strengthen the back, another major theme of this book.
This post was created by Zach Cooper, a movement and manual therapist in the health industry. |