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004: Training Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers with Dr. Andy Galpin

The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance

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How to Train for Hypertrophy

In the perspective of a major baseball player if he pitches on Monday the next day Tuesday is gonna be a big heavy hard lift like that's when we get it in. I think that system or something like that could work really well with NBA or just any college basketball players where you're playing two three games once a week basically. The way to integrate that would be the speed stuff first the power stuff then the strength stuff and then do it that or finisher for hypertrophy range if you want. We are trying to maintain hypertrophy so we're not saying like three sets of ten is bad no we're just saying like that's not where you should live and then stay away from

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Speaker 2
week yep is that fair two three times yeah oh
Speaker 1
yeah you might have back-to-back's right three times a week all right so then the question is well that's great no but like when do I actually do the lift so in the perspective of a major baseball player if he pitches on Monday the next day Tuesday is gonna be a big heavy hard lift like that's when we get it in why because that's the furthest away from the next day he's gonna pitch so the day after a game is is the day not to to get incredibly recovered that's a day to train really really really hard that system works well then it's typically an off day or kind of a back off date then another medium day then a back off day then they're back on the mount yep from there so I think that system or something like that could work really well with NBA or just any college basketball players where you're playing two three games high school you're playing once a week basically right that's a way to that's your heavy lift day the day off then that following day could be your explosive day corrective movement things like that and I think that's a very reasonable system those sessions are small the volume load is really really small over the course of season it's not going to build up to really anything and you don't have to do three sets of ten in fact that would be about the opposite that we would recommend here right right let's get quality reps in when the quality goes down so the quality meaning your technique of course or the load has to go down or the speed in which you're moving the load so to go down then we're done because we're not there to just work for the sake of working or there to execute something which is develop more force yep or learn to develop more force or speed or whatever the task is a little bit of finisher with some volume if you want to get the pump in yeah that's
Speaker 2
cool that is a big thing I mean we are trying to maintain hypertrophy so we're not saying like three sets of ten is bad no we're just saying like that's not where you should live and then stay away
Speaker 1
not for a five month fastball season yeah I mean what's the length of basketball it's gotta be at least five months six months okay for yeah if you don't do any hypertrophy work that's gonna be a problem right over to march yeah yeah that's that's a doozy so yeah the way to integrate that would be the speed stuff first the power stuff then the strength stuff the true strength stuff and then do it that or finisher for hypertrophy range if you want I would cut all the musculine endurance basically and let's just a real small thing like shoulder I'm losing stability when my shoulder girl goes tired so do some extra work there to really build endurance in the shoulder girl if that's my problem or the the glute and glute needs or Achilles whatever happened to do get that stuff in first do the pump stuff at the end and then from a coaching perspective this is something we did really well with the baseball players a long time ago is that last piece we would give autonomy to them so we basically be like okay athlete choice in this one yeah so we're doing curls today or whatever you pick whatever ones you want to do yep don't even care how much I don't even care how many do how many reps I don't care whatever you want to do right this is not gonna matter right the squats the dead lifts the trap bar stuff the jump that I'm I said three not four right like this is very specific that there's a fuck I don't care two 10 12 15 I don't really care do whatever you choose your battles yeah yep I love it and then another thing on I like how you talked
Speaker 2
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