Month: July 2014

Today I want to do a short review of three different books.   The first is Bondarchuk’s “Olympian Manual for Strength and Size.”  The second is The White Prisoner:Galabin Boevski’s Secret Story”  And the third is “All About Powerlifting” by Tim Henriques.

The Olympian Manual for Strength and Size: Blue Print from the World’s Greatest Coach

Depending on your background, you may or may not know who Anatoly Bondarchuk is.  In brief he’s arguably the greatest hammer throwing coach of all time for whatever that may actually be worth.   If you’re not familiar with it, this is what hammer throwing looks like.

Much of Bondarchuk’s work hasn’t been translated but what has is mostly from a company called Ultimate Athlete Concepts which has done a lot of translated Eastern European texts.

I’ve read several of them, Bondarchuk’s first book on Transfer was an unintelligible mess, Volume II was better by degrees. … Keep Reading

Having finally finished the background for power training methods in Categories of Weight Training: Part 14 I am going to finally wrap things up.  And this will be long.  First let me mention that some people made me aware of some current tech/apps that claim to measure power outputs.

Longtime Internets buddy Jon Kolz mentioned BarSense an Android app claiming to measure a variety of things in the gym while Sam Dao mentioned PushStrength which is an armband promising the same.    I know in 2020 as I’m updating this, there are many more apps and devices available.

You’ll recall from what seems ages ago I presented the force-velocity curve and placed different types of training means (speed, speed-strength, power, strength-speed, strength) on it ranging the continuum from high speed/low force to low speed/high-force.  Now it’s time to revisit that concept and finally look at things in a practical sense.

Revisiting the Force-Velocity Curve for Practical Application

So with all of that finally out of the way, let me revisit the force-velocity curve from last time with another added set of categories: these are the actual training methods used in the training of track and field sprinters in terms of where they fall onto the curve.  … Keep Reading