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Training intensity gets more press than training volume, but most of the time it just scratches the surface of the discussion. If you do more than the minimum amount of reading on the topic of training, you no doubt know that “Intensity” does not refer to the amount of emotional excitement you feel during your training, but rather the weight on the bar. You ...

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Individual Force Analysis

For Mike Tuchscherer


Squat

Above: view of the bottom position


Above: View of the weakest joint angle
Technique Comments
Stance and bar position are good. Hips rise a little in the beginning, so make sure you are getting tight enough before descending.
Force Curve Information
Weakest Range of Motion: 5cm to 21cm
Force Curve Shape: Wedge
Trend Amplitude: 3.15
Weak muscle group(s): Quads, Glutes
Exercise Recommendations:
Rationale
Weakest position is in the bottom of the lift, so ideal exercises will emphasize this range of motion.
Specific Exercises
Continue training the Contest Lift
Squat w/belt
Squat w/o belt
Special Exercises
Pin Squat
Pause Squat (both singles ...

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Immediate training effects
The immediate training effects arise as a result of summation of acute training effects from several exercises [10]. Or in other words, immediate training effects represent changes in body state resulting from a single workout and/or a training day [10].
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Similar to RPE during training, session-RPE is taken by answering a simple question “How was your workout?” and pointing to a scale. Training load is calculated by multiplying session-RPE and training duration in minutes (including warm-up).
Training load = Session-RPE x Training_Duration (min)
For example if session-RPE ...

by Mladen Jovanovic

Introduction
Process of preparing the athletes for competitions can be considered complex adaptive system [15, 17, 19, 21] that can be further divided to (1) training, (2) competition and (3) recovery sub-systems.



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