[Supertraining] Re: High Intensity Training?

Bravo, David,

The genetically gifted athletes at any of the top 25 D1 football schools will excel regardless of, or in spite of, any training protocol presented to them.

So many programs in the NFL and the big football schools are using HIT because it's an easy, "don't F*** them up" approach. The players won't get hurt lifting submaximal weights for 1 or 2 sets, on machines. The players natural athletic talent will shine if they aren't tired or sore from lifting. They won't improve optimally and may get injured due to underwork by the accessory musculature while on the field, but they didn't get hurt in the weight room!

It's also easier to administrate if you don't have to be too concerned with sets/ reps/ progressions that must be manipulated if you're running a Westside or even a American Periodization program.

A brilliant strength coach said: If you want to know who's running a great S+C program, go find the small school (or HS) coach with no budget, no resources, limited talent base but still has players improve and excel. That's who you want to listen to.

One more point- at the 2000 NSCA Nationals in Orlando, a former iron curtain exercise physiologist mentioned how the Soviet/ Eastern Block scientists in communism's heyday, were laughing at the west arguing 1 set vs. multiple sets,
here we are 20 years later still arguing, unbelievable to me.

Mark Powell, MS, ATC, CSCS
Camillus, NY

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