Re:High Intensity Training?

[Guest guest]

I agree and I have found the same results for myself and the people I work

with. The amount of stimulus is relative to the individual. Less can be more

provided you bring the right intensity to the table. In fact an old mentor of

mine used to say the same thing... " you can work long or you can work hard but

you cannot work both. " Maybe we should start our own " system " ?

Best,

Rob Barrese

PA, USA

[Guest guest]

Rob, stimulus for what exactly? What are you training for? Athletic

competition? Hypertrophy? Beach muscles?

I have to disagree with the statement " you can work long or you can work

hard, but you can't do both " . I've trained many national and olympic

calibre wrestlers who train long and hard. Their work capacity is

enormous, requiring years of training to acquire. They can train hard

and long - they are adapted to it.

Im the training of one national calibre wrestler I even do a variation

of a hit workout once per week. We are trying to get his body fat very

low while sparing muscle. Thursday is the end of the low carb/low

calories phase and the workout on Thursday evening is aimed at depletion

before carb loading starts for 24 hours. Of course, to me it is

anaerobic capacity we are trying to build and it is done as part of an

overall program with workouts for absolute strength, power, speed as

well as an overwhelming amount of technical/technique training. Overall

this guy works full time and trains about 14-18 hours per week.

He wishes he had more time to train...

:^)

Rob Barrese wrote:

> I agree and I have found the same results for myself and the

> people I work with. The amount of stimulus is relative to the

> individual. Less can be more provided you bring the right intensity to

> the table. In fact an old mentor of mine used to say the same thing...

> " you can work long or you can work hard but you cannot work both. "

> Maybe we should start our own " system " ?

>

> Best,

>

> Rob Barrese

> PA, USA

>

>

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Hobman

Saskatoon, CANADA

[Guest guest]

I've trained wrestlers at the top level too ... and I've wrestled. I guess

you and I have a different definition of what intensity over time means. Thanks

for the feedback.

Rob Barrese

PA, USA