Efficiency Training for Weight Lifters the Real Old School Way.
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I was so excited to find this video on Youtube. I think it is of the Polish Weight Lifting Team in the 1930′s. If anyone out there knows please tell me. I remember seeing a video like this a long time ago and when it was on we had to guess who was being trained. We of course all guessed gymnastics. The video I saw included a lot more than this one that very much resembled some intense gymnastics training. We were all shocked to find out it was Olympic Weight Lifters.
Now I am obviously in complete agreement with what they are doing from a training standpoint. The weight room can make you very strong but it still lacks the ability to make you move effortlessly and fluid. I think this is a major distinction and creates a rift among athletes and trainers. Some athletes and trainers believe in the weight room only or maybe the weight room and then speed and agility training. Older athletes lift and then play basketball or go for a run.
Then you have the group who likes the cardio component of exercise. They run and cycle and stairmaster and whatever else they can do for cardio.
I am obviously being simple in my categories here but what I am getting at is who does this style of training anymore? Well besides us anyway. I know there is becoming a major shift towards “functional training” It started back in the mid to late 1990′s. Many instructors believed that the exercise ball was functional training. Aerobics classes started to try and create more total body movements. This is a huge component to training but still they are not getting the true meaning of “functional training”. It has to be random, not controlled in a specific environment.
The old playground mentality of just going for it and challenging your body and your muscular system in the every changing outdoors has been replaced by simply trying to get a new max on the bench press in our nice air conditioned gyms.
Enjoy the video and afterward we can discuss how to bring those coats back into style!
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coach S said:
Looks like it would be a good workout not for just weightlifters but for any sport. It would be great to see football team camps that trained like this!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:08 am -
Scott said:
The football teams I have worked with the last few years all do training that is similar to this. It makes a huge difference both in the guys ability to move fluidly but also the durability of their bodies is outstanding.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:03 pm -
eric said:
It is frustrating to go on espn.com and find that about half of the main headlines are about injuries. I wonder if athletes started to train this way it would eliminate a lot of those injuries and the stars could actually play and not watch from the sidelines.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:35 pm