Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio. It's been a long time since we visited

the biological principles of strength development. If you're a new coach, a student, or just a

curious athlete, this episode is vital to understanding some of the more complex concepts of

human performance, like rate of force development, compensatory

acceleration, hypertrophy, post-activation, and so much more.

A huge thank you to our guest Antonio Skion for making these concepts digestible even for

the Power Athlete Meathead.

Here it is, episode 588.

You know, I think the most difficult aspect of it is not just understanding the manual.

I put myself in the shoes of a a recent graduate from like an undergrad degree

like that was born after the year 2000. Like some of those words are not even around anymore. Like

they were used 20, 30 years ago and maybe someone with a bit a bit more experience can understand

what they're referring to. But some of the linguistic of our field has changed

significantly over the last 10, 15 years. So maybe the concepts are there is just difficult

to grasp them because they use different words, you know?

Can you give some examples?

If you look at the way we, something that I'm not very enthusiastic about, but we tend to classify strength

and put a label to it, like explosive strength, power, speed strength, strength, that's more

of a way of like, it's a taxonomical approach. We're labeling things and we're putting them

in order. But if you look at the original

manuals, and it's not just Verkoszansky, it's Bosco, it's Comey, Acun, there's either strength,

which can be maximum isometric force or dynamic force, if you look at like weight training

...