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Old 03-08-16, 06:50 AM
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Started experimenting with 10 reps on my squat at lower weight as opposed to 5 reps at higher weights.




I don't like it.
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My typical routine is 2x10 at a low weight and 3x5 at heavy weight. I personally would trade the 3x5 sets for more 10 rep sets.
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Originally Posted by SprintzNKiloz
My typical routine is 2x10 at a low weight and 3x5 at heavy weight. I personally would trade the 3x5 sets for more 10 rep sets.
It seems that fatigue sets in towards the end. That makes it discouraging to finish.
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On a related note:

I've heard of weight training with reps according to time as opposed to rep count. Meaning: Do as many squats as you can for 20s as opposed to doing 5 reps to complete 1 set.

Any science or programs around that?
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Originally Posted by carleton
On a related note:

I've heard of weight training with reps according to time as opposed to rep count. Meaning: Do as many squats as you can for 20s as opposed to doing 5 reps to complete 1 set.

Any science or programs around that?
Are you familiar with the Tabata protocol? It's 20s high-intensity, 10s rest, repeat 8x. It can be applied to lots of things, including weight lifting I suppose - and there's some science on its effect on vo2max: Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max. - PubMed - NCBI ... but if weights are involved they'd have to be pretty low weights in order to be tolerable and the kind of intensity that tabata is about.
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Originally Posted by carleton
Do as many squats as you can for 20s as opposed to doing 5 reps to complete 1 set.
I would only consider this (any high rep scheme) if I gave up the bike. I don't believe in crossing the streams. Aerobic endurance: on bike. Anaerobic endurance: intervals on bike. Anaerobic power: weights.
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Originally Posted by queerpunk
Are you familiar with the Tabata protocol? It's 20s high-intensity, 10s rest, repeat 8x. It can be applied to lots of things, including weight lifting I suppose - and there's some science on its effect on vo2max: Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max. - PubMed - NCBI ... but if weights are involved they'd have to be pretty low weights in order to be tolerable and the kind of intensity that tabata is about.
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I would only consider this (any high rep scheme) if I gave up the bike. I don't believe in crossing the streams. Aerobic endurance: on bike. Anaerobic endurance: intervals on bike. Anaerobic power: weights.
Here's the thing, this would be a low-rep scheme. It takes about 20s to do 5 reps with heavy weights (like on a Starting Strength or 5x5 program).
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So, basically it's a "lift heavy" for 20s then rest for a full recovery.

When you think about it, a 500M is about 10-15s of anaerobic work then the other energy systems take over.
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Originally Posted by carleton
When you think about it, a 500M is about 10-15s of anaerobic work then the other energy systems take over.
Grr.
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Strength training offers a potent stimulus to ↘ fatigue during the last parts of a 10km run | By @YLMSportScience


You enduro nerds should go lift things up and put them down.


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I'm too lazy to find the real study, but based on that infographic I think they increased training load for one group and maintained it for the control. That means they proved that increasing training works. They would have needed to provide an equal increase in aerobic training time in the control group to prove that lifting weights works better.

This is a lot of why coaching tends to be in front of sports science, it's difficult to design good studies, most of them use whatever random college kids they can recruit, and it's tough to normalize different types of training stimulus to each other.

Edit: with love from an Enduro nerd who put in a ten week block of picking up and putting down heavy stuff more than riding
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Originally Posted by wens
This is a lot of why coaching tends to be in front of sports science, it's difficult to design good studies, most of them use whatever random college kids they can recruit, and it's tough to normalize different types of training stimulus to each other.
Yeah, that's what sucks about a lot of collegiate studies. The subjects are generally untrained, but healthy 18-24 year olds.

You are right that coaches probably have better insights into what works for trained athletes.
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Yeah, it's kind of funny actually, science will come along five or ten years behind a coaching advance and tell people why it worked, and at the same time wonder why coaches don't pay more attention to science.
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Ok, how do you guys define "heavy" for your lifts? I realized reading this that I'm a gym noob and haven't given it much thought beyond "I can lift this much 10 times and Y times this much 5 times and not die."
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Originally Posted by wens
Yeah, it's kind of funny actually, science will come along five or ten years behind a coaching advance and tell people why it worked, and at the same time wonder why coaches don't pay more attention to science.
That's a bit of selection bias. I think the number of coaches who are clueless or (more likely) hopelessly entrenched in this or that conventional paradigm far, FAR outnumber ones who are genuinely at the forefront of their field.

I'm not singling out cycling coaches, it seems pretty consistent across all fields, though certainly strength coaches are a particularly ripe target considering most think they need to make something that is fairly simple into something much more complex to justify their role.
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But the coaches at the pointy end actually know what they're doing. They also tend to link up with applied scientists who recognize where real contributions can be made by science.

It was certainly a bit of a flippant comment, and I probably could be nicer about saying it, but the point does remain that coaching has more to teach science than vice versa about how to train optimal performance.
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Originally Posted by wens
But the coaches at the pointy end actually know what they're doing.
We agree on that.

Originally Posted by wens
but the point does remain that coaching has more to teach science than vice versa about how to train optimal performance.
We disagree on that.
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Heavy= more than last time
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Originally Posted by wens
But the coaches at the pointy end actually know what they're doing. They also tend to link up with applied scientists who recognize where real contributions can be made by science.

It was certainly a bit of a flippant comment, and I probably could be nicer about saying it, but the point does remain that coaching has more to teach science than vice versa about how to train optimal performance.
Coaching is an applied science. There are many exercises that are proven to have beneficial outcomes. The good coach then needs to both recognise what might work for that athlete and experiment with known stimuli to conclude what will work for that particular athlete. That is scientific method ~ applied science
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Originally Posted by wens
I'm too lazy to find the real study, but based on that infographic I think they increased training load for one group and maintained it for the control. That means they proved that increasing training works. They would have needed to provide an equal increase in aerobic training time in the control group to prove that lifting weights works better.

This is a lot of why coaching tends to be in front of sports science, it's difficult to design good studies, most of them use whatever random college kids they can recruit, and it's tough to normalize different types of training stimulus to each other.

Edit: with love from an Enduro nerd who put in a ten week block of picking up and putting down heavy stuff more than riding

Good point about increased total training load! It's also worth noting that runners (and any other sport that has eccentric loading, which is everything EXCEPT cycling) react much more to strength training (this is conjecture based on personal experience, and some older literature. I don't have a citation for it!) than the concentric-only pedal stroke we all use. Because running involves ground-reaction forces, which are eccentric contractions, small increases in strength can create larger increases in total efficiency. Almost every study I've found shows a moderate to strong correlation between increased strength and increased performance in endurance sports.

Ideally your coaching staff and sports science staff should be working together. Your example in the academic research is awkward. A lot of "health" studies get branded as "sports" just to get the paper published. (No citation for this either, but ermahgerd, it's a thing.) Combine that with some performance experts taking a keen interest in maintaining their advantage, and the data can sit for years before it gets published. Lastly, the differences between elite (truly elite, Olympians and World Champions) athletes and their peers is so fractionally small that most statistical analyses of their training and programming wouldn't show significant differences. Small sample sizes are generally the bane of research, and elite athletes are by definition a small sample.

Originally Posted by VanceMac
That's a bit of selection bias. I think the number of coaches who are clueless or (more likely) hopelessly entrenched in this or that conventional paradigm far, FAR outnumber ones who are genuinely at the forefront of their field.

I'm not singling out cycling coaches, it seems pretty consistent across all fields, though certainly strength coaches are a particularly ripe target considering most think they need to make something that is fairly simple into something much more complex to justify their role.
This! You nailed it on the head. My alma mater restarted their football team, and the head coach literally, verbatim, told our sports science program that "We can't make them faster, we can't make the jump higher!" The old S&C coach for the entire school, was equally useless. Lots of shouting and precious little coaching. Strength and Conditioning coaches aren't really put in a place to succeed, without a lot of buy-in from the sport-coaches and athletes. So, they feel the need to glam up what they do to look important. It's like trying to fit five-syllable words in a paper to appear smart. Lipstick for the pig, if you will.

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Ok, how do you guys define "heavy" for your lifts? I realized reading this that I'm a gym noob and haven't given it much thought beyond "I can lift this much 10 times and Y times this much 5 times and not die."
Pick a set/rep scheme and find out what your maximum is. You can do a 1 rep max (1RM) or a 3RM, 5RM, 3x3RM, whatever you like, and anything above 90% of that final value is "heavy." The scale we used in grad school was 100-95% is VERY Heavy; 95-90% is Heavy; 90-85% is Moderate Heavy; 85-80% is Moderate, 80-75% is Light; 75-70% is Very Light. Under 70% is for cases of extreme fatigue.
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Is a 25% strength gain across the board worth a 3-4% weight gain as a sprinter?

I'm getting back into track after a 26 year hiatus ( as a MM60). I started as a weight lifter before my last period of competitive cycling, and then went back to it for fitness. To return to cycling, I will let some upper body muscle mass disappear and focus on bringing my legs back up to former spec. I am currently between 7 and 8% body fat and am maxed out on strength at my current weight. From past experience, I know that if I let myself gain another 6 to 8lb, my lower body strength will go up by 25%. Is this worth doing, considering I will be focusing on match sprint and 500M TT? Where is the limit for diminishing returns?
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Originally Posted by Rvair
I'm getting back into track after a 26 year hiatus ( as a MM60). I started as a weight lifter before my last period of competitive cycling, and then went back to it for fitness. To return to cycling, I will let some upper body muscle mass disappear and focus on bringing my legs back up to former spec. I am currently between 7 and 8% body fat and am maxed out on strength at my current weight. From past experience, I know that if I let myself gain another 6 to 8lb, my lower body strength will go up by 25%. Is this worth doing, considering I will be focusing on match sprint and 500M TT? Where is the limit for diminishing returns?
I don't know why the track guys have not responded. I am not one, so I'll answer for road and I believe this would transfer to track.

A strength gain is not a power gain. Or, it is, but not 1:1. Can you maintain that %gain for the length of your event? Do you have the upper body and core and bike that can transmit that power?
If so, sure. Take that all day.
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Originally Posted by Rvair
I'm getting back into track after a 26 year hiatus ( as a MM60). I started as a weight lifter before my last period of competitive cycling, and then went back to it for fitness. To return to cycling, I will let some upper body muscle mass disappear and focus on bringing my legs back up to former spec. I am currently between 7 and 8% body fat and am maxed out on strength at my current weight. From past experience, I know that if I let myself gain another 6 to 8lb, my lower body strength will go up by 25%. Is this worth doing, considering I will be focusing on match sprint and 500M TT? Where is the limit for diminishing returns?
The limit for diminishing returns will be found out by you and you alone (or with a coach). We can't figure out personal training models for someone we know little about. If you've experienced strength gains from increased mass previously, then I would say it's safe to say to add the mass, but there is more to speed than increased strength. I would try to focus on doing what makes you faster, not necessarily what "may" make you faster.

Sprinters for the most part have been getting leaner over the years and drifting away from the "thunder thighs" look of the 80's and 90's. The trends have been more towards developing better 30s power than max wattage. On the other hand, as an MM60 racer, your events are going to be shorter, so max power is going to matter more to you than a younger racer.

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Sprinters for the most part have been getting leaner over the years and drifting away from the "thunder thighs" look of the 80's and 90's. The trends have been more towards developing better 30s power than max wattage. ...
I did not know that.
What W/kg for 30s?
As my kid ages his 5 sec W/kg goes down and his 30s goes up a bit.
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