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Several folk have requested that I review a few articles that Paul Chek wrote
for Testosterone magazine on “How to be Back Strong and Beltless”, as
published on the following webpages:

< http://t-mag.com/html/body_121back.html >
< http://www.t-mag.com/html/body_122back.html >

He has not submitted Part 3 of this series, so, if he is still working on it,
it will be interesting to see if my review influences what he submits. These
two article already suggest that he has taken some of our earlier criticisms
to heart, because he is now admitting in this series that breath holding does
indeed stabilise the trunk.

HOW TO BE BACK STRONG & BELTLESS

PART 1

<<Regardless of your opinion about the origin of man, if you believe in God,
you have to wonder why he didn’t provide weight belts as standard-issue
equipment. On second thought, maybe he did, and we just don’t know how to use
them correctly.>>

*** Exactly the same remark may be applied to the wearing of shoes and it is Read more…

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The latest issue of the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research (Aug
2000, 295-301) contained the following article:

Rimmer E & Sleivert G ‘Effects of a Plyometrics Intervention Program on
Sprint Performance’

It compared the training effects of two different training programs on a
group of 32 male rugby and touch rugby players of average age 24 years. One
group trained with sprint training, while the other group performed
“sprint-specific plyometric exercises.” While the plyometrics group decreased
their ground contact time at 37m distance by 4.4%, the authors concluded that
a sprint specific plyometrics program can improve 40m sprint performance to
the same extent as standard sprint training, possibly by shortening ground
contact time.

The article also noted that the plyometrics intervention appears to have had
the greatest effect on sprint performance during the initial acceleration
stage. This findings concurs with what Young (Sprint bounding and the sprint
bound index Nat Strength Cond Assoc J 1992, 14: 18-21) suggested, namely
that bounding may be considered a specific exercise for the development of
acceleration because of the similar contact times of bounding and sprinting
during the initial acceleration phase.

The authors end the article by stating that coaches and participants should
“consider a plyometrics training program that incorporates sprint-specific
exercises as part of the overall training program.”

And that returns us to where we began! This is precisely the sort of
conclusion that Verkhoshansky and others reached when they did the pioneering
work of plyometric training about 40 years ago. They stressed the importance
of using plyometrics (actually, ’shock method’) as a part of the overall
training program integrated with other forms of strength training in a
suitable sequence of training ‘complexes’ (e.g. see Siff & Verhkoshansky
“Supertraining” 1999, Ch 5.3).

Dr Mel C Siff