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Bingo! I am most definitely talking about performance transfer to sport. The only way I would care about numbers in the weight room would be if weightlifting was their sport.
At first, I used the phrase “on-field performance”. I thought about it for a minute and concluded that definition left out a bunch of athletes. Words have meaning. By using the term “on-field”, I was disregarding a large number of athletes who lift weights to improve performance.
Your quick definition of “we lift weights to win” sums everything we both talked about in one easy to understand way.
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Why do ATHLETES lift weights?
BLUF: Athletes lift weights to induce stress on the body and drive adaptation in order to positively increase performance.
Context is everything. As coaches we will not have athletes of different sport, or even different position in the same sport, train the exact same way. Each sport demands different types of strength, movement, recovery, etc. Knowing the demands asked of an athlete allows the coach to develop the most optimal process of lifting weights for an athlete.
In “Supertraining”, Siff discussed the specificity in training. The topics Siff discussed ranged from muscle contraction to flexibility. Each topic touched on effects to an athlete’s performance. If the coach is armed with the knowledge of how to positively affect an athlete’s performance through weightlifting, the athlete can make substantial improvement to performance.
Our ability to induce stress is going to drive better motor skills for an athlete. We may not even need to add weight in the beginning if an athlete isn’t moving properly. Once the athlete moves properly, we are then able to add weight to further drive adaptation of proper motor skills, fiber recruitment, movement velocity, etc. As coaches, we equip an athlete with an arsenal of strong, efficient, and proper movement patterns to optimally perform.
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I shot with my phone and GoPro to test sound quality. Video’s are the same.
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I’m having trouble turning in my HW assignment through the button in the post. I get a new tab opening up with the following in the URL
mailto:Tex@powerathletehq.com?CC=info@powerathletehq.com&BCC=john@powerathletehq.com&Subject=HOMEWORK:%20Week%201%20Assignment%20A&Body=This%20is%20the%20email%20body
Nothing opens, just a blank page. No error message or anything.
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Side note: I tend to keep my writing with the Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) and at around an eight grade reading level. It is not to insult anyone’s intelligence. It’s the way I’ve been taught over the past five years. The average reading level in the Army is an eighth grade level. Crazy right? That’s the level I use on a daily basis to ensure there is little confusion in orders or policy I create. In our setting a little dressed up verbiage couldn’t hurt but I will aim to keep it simple, I’m a simple dude. I digress…
I put a short and sweet definition in the second sentence of my original post. The simple definition I put was “strength is the ability to exert force onto an external object.” We know it is so much more than that. This definition doesn’t even take into account the mental aspect we talked about in our other posts. At it’s most basic level that is how I would define it.
If I am to advance the definition, it would sound something like this… Strength is the ability to fuse optimal levels of mental fortitude and manifest optimal levels of force, in a given sport, competition, or daily task, to emerge victorious.
I battled with adding “to emerge victorious” to the end of that definition. You can still display strength without winning, but then who the fuck cares how strong you are, the other guy won and you lost. So I’m keeping it!
Kuch
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Alright class, let’s have a quick chat about strength. In its most basic form, strength is the ability to exert force onto an external object. Strength on physical display is seen as concentric, eccentric, and isometric. When we dive deeper into strength during physical application, we see that there are even more subcategories to strength:
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Strength endurance- Ability to maintain continued maximum muscle contraction over an extended period of time (Ex. American Football). Muscle endurance differs because the contractile force is repeated at submaximal levels over an extended period of time (Ex. Bodybuilder).
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Explosive strength- Ability to recruit and fire maximum number of muscle fibers in short bursts (Ex. Olympic weightlifter).
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Absolute strength- One’s ability to exert maximum force to an external object for one repetition (Ex. Powerlifter).
One topic covered in all three books, which I thought could be its own category of strength, was neuromuscular development. This topic dealt with motor learning and muscle fiber recruitment. I would suggest there is strength involved with neuromuscular development. Power Athlete concepts attack the weakness of motor learning during the warmup and skill work. Everyone I have been around finds a weakness they never knew about until they did a Deadbug, Seasaw Walk, Walking Lunge, Ect. With that thought in mind, does that mean someone who improves their ability to execute a walking lunge with proper technique and balance get stronger? I would argue yes, since the individual who was weak with motor control and muscle recruitment has strengthened their neuromuscular abilities.
The importance of knowing that strength is not “one size fits all”, is to be able to train your athletes in the most optimal manner (WAYTF?). If we, as coaches, neglect learning this information we’re just some schmuck getting someone hot and sweaty.
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Intro Video
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I apologize for the last post. I copy and pasted from Word but the Board didn’t like that.
Goals
Short Term:
- Increase my knowledge base and ability to seamlessly articulate the knowledge while coaching.
- No later that (NLT) 11 April 2016, I will be able to seamlessly articulate the superficial and deep meaning of all topics covered during Phase I of the Academy.
- Increase Soldier awareness of the importance of posture, position, nutrition, recovery, and training.
- Each week during our daily physical training (PT) I will pop quiz and have Soldiers back-brief me about the purpose and importance of topics covered during previous PT sessions.
- Finish as the top student in Phase I of the Academy.
- Each week I will strive to go beyond the standard in assignments, discussions, and readings. No one likes mediocrity.
Long Term:
- Advance my career from Platoon Leader to Executive Officer (XO) NLT 30 JUN 2016.
- Each week I will take time to learn more about daily XO duties to prepare myself for the position.
- Utilize knowledge from the Academy to improve soldier physical fitness test scores.
- I will implement a program for PT to improve my platoon’s overall average Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) score by at least 10 points NLT 30 June 2016.
- Advance from a coach to a Power Coach, AKA Power Coach Youngling to Power Coach Padawan to Power Coach Master (see what I did there).
- On a daily basis, I will fight off mediocrity to graduate as the top student from the Academy at the end of Phase III.
- Increase my knowledge base and ability to seamlessly articulate the knowledge while coaching.
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Found that shit. Page 24 and 25 of Supertraining
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@menacedolan Interesting approach to strength. All of the definitions from the text kept their definition in a scientific setting which is able to produce valid scientific data. I would argue that it is impossible to have a scientific study to measure emotional strength. What’s my point? We are not the scientists trying to prove a theory. But shouldn’t the definition be measurable? You could argue my definition may not be measurable. I say it is, but there are only two outcomes, pass or fail/win or lose. In the world of performance that is all we care about. If your sport is Powerlifting then progression is easy to see but in a field sport it is much more opaque.
You touched on the attempt to complete a task as possessing strength.If I think about this in a real world example I think about the Cleveland Browns. Each individual may be strong but as a team they may have weak chemistry. They may be an emotionally strong team because they continually show up on Sunday to get embarrassed (Sorry not sorry, Browns fans). Are we saying they are a strong team for attempting to win even though they are weak as on overall team?
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I liked that you took a decent amount of focus off of the physical strength and into mental strength. We have all seen an athlete come back from injury and never be themselves again because of some mental block. For that reason, I would say mental strength is without question a major factor in performance.
A point you drove home was a holistic approach to strength. I understood the concept right away and started asking myself questions… “Is he talking about a GPP approach to strength?” “How much focus on mental training are we talking about?” “Are we saying the mentally stronger person is going to have the advantage over the physically stronger?”
Your very first line, you asked the most important question,” Who is asking the question?” If an Olympic Weightlifter asks the question the answer will be drastically different from a marathoner, in a physical manner. What about the mental aspects though? Both can experience pain, fear, lack of focus, etc. would we train them the same mentally?
Your definition is easy to comprehend but leaves me with a lot of questions. I certainly would agree the most physically gifted person does not always win because they may lack mental fortitude.
