Charlie Francis and Maximal Weights training

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I recently spent some time with Charlie and he still holds these

views 12 years later, as do I. The purpose of general training (i.e.,

anything other than your actual sport) such as strength training, is

to develop a quality that will positively impact your sport

performance, and which cannot be effectively developed by practicing

the sport itself. In the case of sprinting, if sprinting can develop

certain qualities better than auxiliary training, you'd want to go

that route. I.e., if the sport itself develops the quality more

effectively, don't add in auxiliary training to accomplish that goal.

Lance Tamburo wrote:

>Subject: Charlie Francis and Maximal Weights training

>

>Recently I was reading Charlie Francis' book Training for Speed and

>was interested in his thoughts on weight training. He believes that

>since his athletes do a lot of sprinting and jumping then training

>with weights at submaximal loads and high speeds is useless. He

>backs this up by saying that the speeds that could be achieved with

>this time of weight training don't come close to those achieved in

>sprinting. He advocates using maximal weights in weight training and

>trying to accelerate the load as fast as possible even though in

>reality it will move slowly. I would like to hear other's comments

>on this subject.

>

>Lance Tamburo

>

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