Monday, October 25, 2010

Eric Cressey's Off Season Training for Athletes

While I don't think I am necessarily the target audience for this program, it will be good anyway. I am starting the program today (well, yesterday, but it was a rest day). It will be quite a change for me from what I am accustomed to doing. First off, I will only be training with weights 4 days a week (2 days of other stuff). This should be a great change and help me get some solid gains. It includes lots of foam rolling and activation work, which I don't do enough of. I like it because it's not overly complicated. I lose focus when things are too complicated - do 10 reps of this, with a 2-0-1 tempo, followed by 8 reps of this with a 3-1-3 tempo, followed by 12 sets of this... argh! I can't even be bothered to print the program out when that's what it entails. EC does have some percentages in this program, but I can do that no problem. That stuff I am used to. The program is 12 weeks long in total, and I guess if I am having success with it I could do the entire 12 weeks and then start into a program from my brother for Nationals. I will reassess every 4 weeks and see how things are going, since the program is broken down into 3- 4week phases anyway.

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