Hello,
@Pavel Macek
Most of the time, I admit I strongly agree with your statement, however, this time…
Disclaimer: All I'll say will be said with plenty of respect
If there is some kind of "high volume protocol that works", SF approved in the blog (here I mention the push up article above), why would it be impossible that the same principle also apply to core training ?
Plus, Max Shank, who is also an RKC and not really "weak", also positively talks about some high rep training:
8 Minutes to Awesome | T Nation
A guy in the boxing training successfully passed a few weeks ago the French Naval Spec Ops Selection. This is the equivalent of the SEALs. He only did, on a GTG basis, plenty of push ups, pull ups, running / swimming / rucking and ab training (sit ups, crunches, flutter kicks, HLR, LR, planks, etc...), with astounding number of répétitions (several hundreds a day). He never has any issues of any types, and he is strong as hell. He has rock solid trunk. He does bridges and stuff to work on extension and balance the flexion of other ab exercises
So here my question would be: if it works for Spec Ops training, why would not it work for a regular guy ?
Plenty of old timers (in boxing and other sport) used high rep training. This still goes for some of modern fighters (Pacquiao, Emelyanenko as moderns (among others), but Marciano could be an example of old time fighter).
Plus, some folks also recover better from high rep low weight than high weight low rep training. Basically, this tends to be my case.
I am aware that this is not the best solution to develop max strength. Nonetheless, due to the volume, IMO, it remains "correct" to develop more than enough strength for every day purpose or even Spec Ops purpose
Kind regards,
Pet'