Heavy swings have helped me maintain 250kg at 95kg b/w when I've not been lifting for 3 months, and they've helped me finally break 260kg
increasing My Deadlift 74 lbs
I had good Deadlift to begin with.
However, Heavy Deadlift Training was beating my lower back up.
I eventual changed my Deadlift Training to Complex Training; Heavy Good Partial Good Mornings with Hang Power Cleans.
I never Deadlift prior to a meet.
This method allowed me to increase my Deadlift 74 lbs over a three year period.
The Foundation of The Westside Method and Dr Tom McLaughlin's Research
1) The foundation of increasing Stength in a exercise is to empoly Auxiliary Exercise that are similar in nature the exercise you want to increase strength in.
2) Dr Tom Mc:Laughlin's research that emerged at the same time as The Westside Method, came the same conc;usion
This information has been posted on this site numerous time with more details on it; the reason for this approach and how to apply it.
There are some caveats that need to be employed with this method to ensure a your 1 Repetition Max is achieved in a Deadlift or any other movement.
Recent Research
The following Abstract from this research demonstrate the....
Transfer Between Lifts: Increased Strength in Untrained Exercises
Zachary Mang, PhD,1 Len Kravitz, PhD, CSCS,1 and Jason Beam, PhD2,3 1 Department of Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2 School of Fitness Education, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and 3 Kinesiology Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
ABSTRACT
The principle of specificity confers that physiological adaptations to exercise reflect the specific stimuli applied during an exercise training program. When applied to resistance training (RT), the principle of specificity implies that the acquisition of strength, which is often measured as a 1 repetition maximum, is specific to several variables of an RT program such as intensity, contraction type, and motor pattern.
Although the principle of specificity holds true, a phenomenon called “transfer” also occurs when a lifter increases their strength in an exercise that they did not train. For example, if a lifter performed lunges in lieu of back squat, but their back squat strength increased anyway, there would be transfer between the lunge and back squat. This column summarizes recent research that reported transfer between bilateral exercises, unilateral to bilateral exercises, and single-joint to multiple-joint exercises and provides several recommendations for practical applications along the way.
