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Episode 31 - Raising Work Capacity

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The Law of Accommodation

I trained wrong for 12 years and in 1982 to very end 81 or beginning 82, I started doing all the Soviet methods stuff. If you handle weights at 90% or above for three weeks in a row, you will go backwards. Ben Tevassen, a tremendous sprint coach from the old Soviet Union who came to America and got famous said to adapt to training is never to adapt. You can't fully adapt to anything because if you do, you have the law of accommodation waiting on you. So now everything we do is positive training. One day's for acceleration on the speed data dynamic day for us. We use speed strength weights 75 to 85%. The 50% are training between

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