Taking Sports Performance to the Next Level
Seven Keys Revisited
I decided to revisit the Seven Keys series and give a concrete example of how to impliment the seven keys and utilize the cheat sheet. So to begin here is the cheat sheet:
Main Goal GPP
Strength G : Quickness G
Main Goal – Hypertrophy
Strength G : Strength G
Maintenance – Power
Quickness G + Speed-strength PC
For a strong but slow athlete you should use a power template. The following templates are excellent choices:
Main Goal – Power
Quickness G: Speed-strength PC
Quickness G: Speed-Strength PC + Quickness G
Quickness G + Speed-Strength PC : Strength Speed PC
Quickness G + Speed-Strength PC : Strength Speed PC+Quickness G
Maintenance – Strength
Strength PC + Strength G
If you are a quick but weak athlete the following templates may be effective:
Main Goal – Strength
Strength PC : Strength G
Strength PC : Strength-Speed PC+Strength G
Strength PC+Strength G : Strength-Speed PC +Strength G
Maintenance – Power
Quickness G + Speed-strength PC
Capacity
20% Drop Off
Peak Capacity
Every set is at maximal intensity
Stop when performance drops by 20%
Repetitive Capacity
First Set is maximal
Every other set is submaximal
Stop when you performance drops by 20% from initial set
Training Splits
Upper-Lower
Upper
Push
Pull
Delt
Bicep
Tricep
Lower
Core
Foot/Calf
Quad
Hamstring/Glute
Total Body
Push
Pull
Hip Extension/Knee Flexion
Squat/Lunge
Methods:
Strength
Normal Lifting
Isometric
Pause Reps
Multiple Pause Reps
Oscillatory Isometrics
Slow Eccentrics
Power
Dynamic Effort Method
Weighted Drop and Catch
Weighted Drop, Catch, and Explode
Altitude Drop and Catch
Altitude Drop, Catch, and Explode
Quickness
Reflexive Firing Isometrics
Weighted Drop, Catch, and Explode
Normal Lifting
Movements:
Squatting
Front Squat
Back Squat
Body weight Squat
Lunging
Forward Lunge
Side Lunge
Reverse Lunge
Front Lunge
Back Lunge
Static Lunge
Bulgarian Split Squat
Hip Extension
RDL
Good Morning
Single Leg RDL
Single Leg Deadlift
Knee Flexion
Stability Ball Leg Curl
Glute Ham Raise
Upper Body Push
Bench Press
Military Press
Dumbbell Shoulder Press
Front Raise
Side Raise
Upper Body Pull
Chin Up
Pull Up
Rear Lateral Raise
Barbell Row
Dumbbell Row
Step 1 Pick a Goal – I am choosing power
Step 2 Pick a template that matches your goal – Quickness G + Speed-Strength PC : Strength Speed PC
Step 3 Pick a capacity – I will choose peak as the athlete is interested in improving maximal speed and power
Step 4 Pick a split – Upper-Lower
Step 5 assign the movements (note I am only working through the lower body portion for this example):
Lower Day 1
Core
Foot/Calf
Quad
Hamstring/Glute
Lower Day 2
Core
Foot/Calf
Quad
Hamstring/Glute
Step 6 – Assign methods
Lower Day 1
Core – RFI decline ISO Medball sit up
Foot/Calf – RFI Low Squat Foot Jump
Quad – REA Squat
Hamstring/Glute KB Swing
Lower Day 2
Core – Russian Twist
Foot/Calf – RFI Lateral Low Squat Foot Jump
Quad – REA Speed Lunge
Hamstring/Glute – REA GHR
Step 7 assign time brackets – This is a football player so the dominant bracket is 0-10 seconds and the supplementary is 11-30 seconds
Lower Day 1
Core – RFI decline ISO Medball sit up – 11-30 sec
Foot/Calf – RFI Low Squat Foot Jump – 11-30 sec
Quad – REA Squat – 0-10 sec
Hamstring/Glute KB Swing – 11-30 sec
Lower Day 2
Core – Russian Twist – 11-30 sec
Foot/Calf – RFI Lateral Low Squat Foot Jump – 11-30 sec
Quad – REA Speed Lunge - 0-10 sec
Hamstring/Glute – REA GHR – 0-10 sec
All done!!!
Enjoy
Alex
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about 1 year ago
When you say weak athlete, slow athlete, strong athlete, etc., do you have any standards to compare to. (ie. strong = 2.5xBW Sq)?
about 1 year ago
Hello,
Let’s say that you were designing a bodybuilding template and you had just completed your Gpp block. Could you then organize your workouts in the hypertrophy block Strength PC : Strength G: Power PC and repeat? Another question is can you
perform strength G and strength PC in the same workout without what may be called a neuro “confusion”?
about 1 year ago
1. Yes you sure can
2. Neuro confusion refers more to mixing strength and quickness exercises. So you could do strength pc and strength G in the same workout.
Alex
about 1 year ago
Hello,
Strength and quickness? Would it not be quickness and endurance together lead to neural confusion?
Brandon Green
about 1 year ago
Neural confusion has more to do with the nature of the neural signal. So a quick signal would be like typing on a keyboard. While a strength signal is a 1rm on a squat. Different durations of neural signal time per contraction and different force registers.
hope that helps