What do you think of this “go to strategy” that I used way back when I was training netball and rugby athletes? Both sets of athletes benefited from strength endurance, strength and speed strength/power. You didn’t want your teams losing games in the last minutes (looked bad on the S&C coach) so strength endurance was important, but players that were powerful were potential game winners. What was needed was power endurance. How do we train that?
This was my thinking then. Maximum strength is highly correlated to strength endurance. The stronger you are the less motor units you recruit to do the same amount of work. Maximum strength is highly correlated to speed strength/power (i.e. improve force or strength and keep speed the same, power increases). Strength endurance and power not so strongly correlated. For power endurance then train the middle ground, maximal neuronal strength (1-4 RM) and it transfers to power and endurance?
What say you? On point, fundamentally flawed or better ways of doing it now?
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