VinceULL
First Post
Long-time lurker, hi all.
I love the simplicity of C & Ps for strength and muscle gains, and the fact someone like Dan John has them as a best bang for the buck exercise speaks volumes. Also my student room is so small I don't have space for TGUs even if I was minded to do them!
I have been looking at devising a C & P doubles program (doubles for muscle gains and time compression) with swings for 'conditioning' and toyed with some of Geoff Neupert's. But in light of the great info here about how you really shouldn't trash your glycolitic system, they are not for me. They would also impede my other activities - a bit of climbing, rugby, hockey.
I am thinking - double C & P ladders twice a week, double swings twice a week (100 reps per session), to a fairly easy stop each set (with long rests in between sets a la Pavel's superb articles on 'work capacity' on the site. I showed a pal who's reading Sports Science and he thought they were excellent, too).
I know that ladders aren't really advised for doubles due to the volume. But I am hoping that doing them just twice a week whilst cycling the load (probably micro-cycles like the ROP, with easy, moderate and hard/high volume days but only C & Ping 2 times a week, of course) would obviate this problem.
As for when to move up in kettlebell size I think I would probably move up in both clean and presses and swings once I have done 5 ladders of 1,2,3,4,5 reps.
Is this a 'goer' for an easy(ish!) strength progression? I think it would leave enough for my other activities, whereas I'm not sure geoff's (albeit otherwise excellent) programs would.
If you think I am stupid, crazy or anything else, let me know! :-D Or if there's anything better...
I love the simplicity of C & Ps for strength and muscle gains, and the fact someone like Dan John has them as a best bang for the buck exercise speaks volumes. Also my student room is so small I don't have space for TGUs even if I was minded to do them!
I have been looking at devising a C & P doubles program (doubles for muscle gains and time compression) with swings for 'conditioning' and toyed with some of Geoff Neupert's. But in light of the great info here about how you really shouldn't trash your glycolitic system, they are not for me. They would also impede my other activities - a bit of climbing, rugby, hockey.
I am thinking - double C & P ladders twice a week, double swings twice a week (100 reps per session), to a fairly easy stop each set (with long rests in between sets a la Pavel's superb articles on 'work capacity' on the site. I showed a pal who's reading Sports Science and he thought they were excellent, too).
I know that ladders aren't really advised for doubles due to the volume. But I am hoping that doing them just twice a week whilst cycling the load (probably micro-cycles like the ROP, with easy, moderate and hard/high volume days but only C & Ping 2 times a week, of course) would obviate this problem.
As for when to move up in kettlebell size I think I would probably move up in both clean and presses and swings once I have done 5 ladders of 1,2,3,4,5 reps.
Is this a 'goer' for an easy(ish!) strength progression? I think it would leave enough for my other activities, whereas I'm not sure geoff's (albeit otherwise excellent) programs would.
If you think I am stupid, crazy or anything else, let me know! :-D Or if there's anything better...