Having finished the discussion of maximal strength training methods in Categories of Weight Training: Part 9, I want to move into a topic that may not have much relevance to many of my readers. That topic is power training, exercises meant to increase muscular power.
To discuss power training methods, I’m going to first need to bore you with a few concepts that you may or may not be familiar with (depending on your background and what kinds of things you generally read) including Rate of Force Development and the physics definition of power. I’ll wind up today by looking at the first loading parameter for power training which is intensity as that will set me up to (hopefully) finish up in the next piece.
What is Power?
So let’s move on to actual power training methods, what types of training actually improves power, RFD, etc. To deal with that I need to bore you with a return to high school physics since I first need to define power in at least general terms (if for no other reason than to distinguish it from Real Ultimate Power). … Keep Reading