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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Andy and I answer client questions including:
Metabolic adaptation
Strength V power
Drop sets or eccentrics?
Sugar and kids
Sleep and muscle growth
Self fulfilling prophecies
and much more
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0:00.0 | Hello, we're back. We're back from being kicked out of Zoom. |
0:05.0 | Okay, we ready with le questions. |
0:09.0 | Yes, yes. |
0:11.0 | Oh actually, I have one. Shall I start with this one? |
0:14.0 | Cool for it. |
0:16.0 | What's the difference between power and strength? Should we train differently for these? In my head, I |
0:22.4 | tend to think of power as a dynamic or explosive type of strength, but not sure if that's |
0:29.3 | actually supported by the evidence. When it comes to things like rep ranges, the normal |
0:36.2 | strength rep ranges are generally three to five reps. |
0:43.2 | And in powers normally six to eight. |
0:47.4 | I would power stuff, I would probably look to have somebody maybe going at a quicker tempo. |
0:53.2 | Not on like a downwards phase, like the eccentric phase, |
0:56.0 | but on much more explosive on the sort of concentric phase of the movement. |
0:59.6 | So like a squat, you're firing out the bottom of the hole as quick as you can. |
1:04.9 | Firing out the bottom of that hole. |
1:08.5 | And there's the first euphemism of the day. |
1:14.2 | And it's only Tuesday. Is Tuesday or Monday Monday I don't even know what day is um yeah Monday even yeah but now then you would with power |
1:21.9 | stuff you'd also potentially bring in things like plyometric work um so yeah there's there is a different way to train towards power than there is towards |
1:31.6 | strength. |
1:32.8 | Yeah. |
1:33.6 | And an easy way to look at it is the definition of strength and power. |
1:38.8 | So the definition of strength is the absolute amount of force you can apply to something. |
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