Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy-Brad Schoenfeld
Brad Schoenfeld is one of a new crop of exercise scientists who come from a background of strength training and/or bodybuilding. I’ve reviewed a number of his studies (and he’s done others including a number of excellent meta-analyses of topics such as rest intervals, repetition speed, the mechanism of growth, and others) and have mentioned that it’s nice to see someone finally at least attempting to do training studies that have some relevance to real-world training.
All You Need to Know About Training Part 2
So last week, I looked at some general concepts that were applied by the Australian Institute of Sport strength coach in training their track cyclists. To finish up today, I want to look at some of the specific details that he provided regarding their training. Remember that this was a small country with few resources that just kicked ass internationally for many years until the UK took over the sport. They knew what they were doing and this gives some real insight into how training works. Again, I’ll intersperse his information with my comments.
All You Need to Know About Training Part 1
Anyhow, what I’m going to do in this (hopefully) short series, is look at a post that was made a bunch of years back about the Australian Institute Sport (AIS) track cycling program; and it was written by their weight room coach so this isn’t some second hand account. This is the guy that was coaching the athletes that were, at the time, kicking serious ass.
