I am a fan of including explosive or Olympic style movements in training programs. By this, I mean movements like pulls and cleans, not neccessarily the Olympic lifts themselves. If you have been coached to do the Olympic lifts, great, include them in your training but if you have not had a good coach teach you the lifts, stay with the more basic explosive movements. If you start including these lifts in your program, it is important to keep the reps per set low. The damands of these lifts are such that the maximum number of reps in one set should generally be no higher than 6. I usually recommend no higher than 3 or 4.
I recommend you give explosive lifts a go.
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Wayne
This morning I was listening to a really interesting interview with Gray Cook, the author of Athletic Body in Balance. One of the things he was discussing was the concept that under fatigue, your default exercise form should be that of impeccable technique.
This approach has a lot going for it, primarily in terms of effectiveness and safety. When you are starting to fatique, it is very important that you don’t let your form slip because of the potential for injury. This does not mean that you should never use cheating as a training tool, it means that it is your conscious decision to cheat not your automatic fallback position.
The bottom line of this training approach is that you should not focus on the goal number of reps at the expense of your training technique.
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Wayne
Check out these thick rope rows with 180lb (approx 81kg.) This is a great exercise that will also get your heart rate galloping. This vid comes courtesy of Jason Ferruggia, author of Muscle Gaining Secrets and Fit To Fight.
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Wayne
. One of the things he was discussing was the concept that under fatigue, your default exercise form should be that of impeccable technique.