Wendler's comment about using jumps or throws before/between sets of squats and presses reminded me about George Hechter using power cleans to warm up for heavy deadlifts. This is a bit of an application difference from DE specific work.
Wendler's comment about using jumps or throws before/between sets of squats and presses reminded me about George Hechter using power cleans to warm up for heavy deadlifts. This is a bit of an application difference from DE specific work.
I will add for the sake of discussion that Mike Tuchscherer has a couple of articles explaining his stance that he isn't terribly impressed with speed work as well. If I understand his thoughts correctly - dynamic sets work, but they might not be optimal. He even uses the example between the power clean and a dynamic deadlift that Rip has used (dynamic deadlifts are fast because you want them to be, power cleans are fast because they must be in order to rack on the shoulders).
Links if desired:
Article 2
Last edited by Mark Rippetoe; 01-29-2014 at 01:49 AM. Reason: Article 1 was to a website that does not like us. Fuck that website.
This is a bit of a derail but I always felt that Dr. Squat predated Louie and the DE with his Compensatory Acceleration Training. Their exact programming parameters and prescription may have varied (can't recall at the moment) but the concept of "lifting a non-maximal load with the greatest speed possible" doesn't seem to be solely or originally Louie's idea, yet he always got the credit for it.
You're right. Fred was, in fact, first, with compensatory acceleration. I wonder if it pisses him off that Louie got the credit?
Damn, I wish there were an easy way to avoid splitting the discussion on these resources posts. I just found the discussion linked directly to the video and it addresses the questions I had, in depth. I'll post there for any further clarification.
...and I should have included this link to the "other discussion" in my last post:
http://startingstrength.com/resource...ad.php?t=46262