superendurance
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First off, thanks for your giving your perspective. I stand behind the points I made in my response towards you, but I concede that I may have sounded overly hostile. Should that have been the case, I apologize.
I see what you're saying. However, when we get into feats of extreme strength or endurance, they are hardly ever necessary for any sport. It it not necessary for a basketball player, wrestler, soccer player, dancer etc. to deadlift triple bodyweight, do a one arm pull up, do 200 pushups, do 100 kettlebell snatches in 5 minutes and so on and so forth. Per definition, anything we would deem "impressive" usually goes beyond what's considered general physical preparation for most sports.
No offense, but the man is a five time world champion and has coached nine other world champions. I don't know what his rationale for the pushups was, but as a layperson I can just assume he knows what he's doing.
This is true. However, let's think logically for second. 405 is about 95% of 425. Do you really think the person in question could lift 95 percent of their 1RM for 20 reps? Like I said, it completely defies logic. My best guess is that the statement was hyperbole.
That's fair. I just find it incredibly condescending and arrogant to call the training of a multiple world champion "idiotic". The other thing I'm criticizing is his condescending behaviour towards anyone who disagrees with him.have @Kenny Croxdale in very high regard with his complete and extended awnsers in a lot of posts.
I'm not saying 200 push up's is not impressive, but I think it's on the same line of the world record plank (9 hours and 1 minute). Which is an awesome feat, but not necessary for any sport.
I see what you're saying. However, when we get into feats of extreme strength or endurance, they are hardly ever necessary for any sport. It it not necessary for a basketball player, wrestler, soccer player, dancer etc. to deadlift triple bodyweight, do a one arm pull up, do 200 pushups, do 100 kettlebell snatches in 5 minutes and so on and so forth. Per definition, anything we would deem "impressive" usually goes beyond what's considered general physical preparation for most sports.
I'm not an GS trainer, but if I wanted to train my lock-out (assume this is the goal watching the video) I would have done a vertical excercise, maybe handstand push up, because the mechanics (in lock-out) are more similair to the jerk position then push ups (vertical vs horizontal) or do fewer jerks with heavy weight, so the competitio
No offense, but the man is a five time world champion and has coached nine other world champions. I don't know what his rationale for the pushups was, but as a layperson I can just assume he knows what he's doing.
People who tent to do longer work sets, have more difficulty to attain the tension which is needed for a single max effort.
This is true. However, let's think logically for second. 405 is about 95% of 425. Do you really think the person in question could lift 95 percent of their 1RM for 20 reps? Like I said, it completely defies logic. My best guess is that the statement was hyperbole.