Has anyone experimented with doing A+A and strength work on the same day? For example do your typical 5x5 on Squats and an upper body lift then finish with Pavel’s C&J A+A after? I’m trying to consolidate work into just a few workouts a week during fall as time and energy is going to be a little limited. This can be with Q&D as well as I love rotating them. Usually A+A is on separate days but I’m limited to 2 maybe 3 strength days this fall
No, I have not. I will offer that, if I was to do this, I'd do the A+A work first, and adjust the balance between the two things so that either the A+A was easy enough to have good strength training afterwards or the strength training was easy enough to be performed in a slightly fatigued state from the A+A training. Specifically I would not do what you mention, which is A+A after strength training. Explosive work should come first - you can do it after, but then it becomes something else, a sort of strength-endurance training rather than power endurance.
There are a few articles on this site about doing very small amounts of kettlebell ballistics alongside strength training. It won't be A+A but such an approach may be what's best for you if strength training is your most important thing.
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I do swings, a powerful set every 1:20 at the moment, for a total of about 80 reps. This is, in my mind Q&D/A+A-ish. My typical schedule, which I did do as below this past week is:
Sun: SQ
Mon: swing
Tue: BP
Wed: swing
Thu: off
Fri: DL
Sat: swing
On SQ/BP/DL days, if I have time and energy, I'll do a little of the other two lifts in competition order, e.g., on SQ day I followed it up with a few easy BP, and on DL day, I started with a few easy SQ and a few easy BP before going into heavy DL. So it's strength training alternated with A+A-ish training.
If something's gotta give, I'll cut out one swing day.
The day off is before DL day because my DL is my best lift and the weights are heavy and systemically tiring, and I've found I need the rest day before in order to have a good heavy DL day.
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