#37 - Antonio Squillante: The Shock Method, Advanced Metrics For Athletes

In the 37th Episode of The Strength Connection Podcast, Mike and our special guest Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS), author of Power. The Training of Champions  Antonio Squillante @antonio_squillantecscs will talk about Eccentric training,  Always adaptation followed by exhaustion, The minimum of stress to create adaptation and The Shock Method.

Join us in this insightful and captivating talk!

In this chapter you will discover:

(1:45) Introducing our special guest Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS), author of Power. The Training of Champions  Antonio Squillante @antonio_squillantecscs

(1:45) Reconnecting with Antonio after 6 months

(2:10) SFG Level 1

(2:30) Antonio’s 1st SFG event

(3:30) Antonio Squillante and his wife

(5:10) Eccentric training

(5:10) Listen to last Antonio’s interview on the Breakthrough Secrets Podcast

(6:30) “Once you drive a Ferrari, everything else is gonna be a slow car” - Antonio Squillante @antonio_squillantecscs

(6:35) Antonio’s powerful analogy

(7:00) Professor Yuri V. Verkhoshansky @yuriverkhoshansky  moved from Russia to Italy in the late 80’s

(7:10) Shout out to Natalia Verkhoshansky

(8:00) Big Antonio’s project

(8:20) 3 Main areas: Foundation of special strength training for sport, Biometrics and Bloc training systems

(9:20) The Shock Method, advanced metric for athletes

(10:00) Supertraining by Yuri V. Verkhoshansky @yuriverkhoshansky 

(10:00) Antonio cried for this reason

(10:30) Post activation

(11:20) The soviets tend to translate everything in Math and Physics

(12:20) Plyometrics VS Powermetrics

(13:20) Linear Periodization For Raw Powerlifting by J.S. Smith 

(13:40) Block training system

(13:45) What changes is the scale of the intervention

(14:50) The block training system

(14:55) Long lasting training effect

(15:00) Myth: Soviets train high volume, high intensity high frequency

(15:50) Sequence to develop more power

(16:30) The Bulgarian Method

(17:30) Muscle hypertrophy and protein

(18:40) Athletes need more enzymes, more mitochondria

(23:10) Resistance phase and Exhaustion phase

(24:10) Always adaptation followed by exhaustion

(25:20) The minimum of stress to create adaptation

(25:30) Doing what is possible for your immune system

(26:20) Check this research

(29:00) Easy Strength by Pavel Tsatsouline and Dan John https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Strength-Stronger-Competition-Dominate-ebook/dp/B005Q6M79A/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11T4XFSH50LJT&keywords=Easy+strength&qid=1643133374&s=books&sprefix=easy+strength%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C135&sr=1-1

(30:00) Joe Rogan interviews Pavel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTAEx9WDNKg 

(33:20) Velocity Strength Training 

(35:00) Mechanical Power

(36:40) I need to know exactly how much can I go up

(38:20) Soft skills, they involve more your brain that they do your body

(41:20) Your ability to focus on things is very limited

(41:50) For the same effort of your body, you need less mind energy cause your min knows now is possible

(54:30) Why you should do box jump the right way

(56:20) Be intuitive

(58:30) You’re limiting knee capacity and balance by doing this

(59:30) Single leg workout

(1:01:40) Where to reach out to Antonio Squillante