Common Questions About Dynamic Force Weight Training

  1. How can I be certain anyone can specifically train to get faster, quicker and more powerful?
    1. Our bodies [biology], with appropriate training methods, are equipped to recruit those physiological elements that are responsible for increasing speed, quickness and power.
  2. Why has there not been more awareness and recognition of training specifically for speed and power?
    1. Decades of the overwhelming influence/advertising of the training methods and supplementation habits of body building. Young men and women want to look good.
    2. In the mid to late 70’s to early 80’s, the adoption of power and olympic style lifting in professional, intercollegiate, and high school programs as the primary method of strength training, the buzz word becoming “functional strength.”
    3. In the 70’s and 80’s, Dr. Cooper’s earlier research and book, Aerobics, became the primary influence and parameter of cardio-vascular conditioning and fitness. Ironically, at the time, Dr. Cooper did not believe in the necessity of lifting weights.
  3. Why are different methods and techniques necessary from most traditional strength training and conditioning programs?
    1. Variations in neuromuscular impulse rates, muscle motor unit firing rates and contraction rates of 2X fast twitch muscle fibers, 2A fast twitch muscle fibers, and slow twitch muscle fibers are normally not understood or applied in traditional weight training.
    2. Understanding rapidly applied force, maximum muscle tension/contraction [summation to tetanus] and the timing of energy/nutritional systems to support maximum muscle tension/contraction is essential when training for optimum speed and power.
  4. Are you saying we may be overlooking important physiological elements in current traditional weight training if we want to get faster, quicker and more explosive?
    1. Absolutely. In addition to those physiological elements mentioned, in traditional strength training programs, many underestimate the value of isometric contractions [ iso-holds] and assisted eccentric action [assisted negatives] for creating maximum muscle tension and contraction, essential for producing immediate optimum force, which increases speed and power.

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