Post by joeaverage on Dec 14, 2008 10:52:05 GMT -5
I'm going to try and clarify the JA system and to clarify exactly how we all train here at the 'compound' as Mike C. likes to call it.
As you look through the 6 cycles that are posted in this section, that is the complete JA template. For 2-3 years I followed the complete JA system, did all the assistance and recovery days.
For the last several years I have followed the stripped down or simplified version of JA and the result has been an even bigger increase in strength, which is posted in my current JA log.
I am a firm believer now that rest and recovery is the most important aspect of strength training regardless of age and experience. Overtraining and rest and recovery go hand in hand. You can't go into the gym the day after a major squat or bench workout and do assistance and recovery exercises and expect to recover. I learned that quick squats and quick pulls, goodmornings and reverse hypers did more to inhibit rest and recovery than to enable it.
What has cemented this for me is the group of 13 & 14 year olds that I have been training. They do the same workouts that I do and with the same frequency and they have all made tremendous strength gains. The meet that they recently competed in for their age, weight and experience they all put up great numbers. Tom weighing 102 squatted 275 in his first meet ever in full gear, my son weighing 116 squatting 300 and both deadlifting 275 and 285 respectively.
I am a firm believer that bands will correct and strengthen any weakness that you may have. Rather than picking assistance exercises to develop a certain weakness, when correctly training with bands the bands themselves stimulate the entire body and correct any and all weaknesses. Again, the group of kids are a great example of how the bands have strengthened their cores and corrected all their weaknesses without incorporating assistance work and thus inhibiting rest and recovery.
It was great watching these kids compete, all using wide stances for the squat and deadlift and all able to stay upright and sit back allowing them to lift the weight they did and none of them ever doing a goodmorning or reverse hyper or any other assistance work. Training with the bands strengthened their cores and eliminated all weaknesses.
For whatever reason, alot of guys would rather do a system that incorporates big words and all kinds of different exercises. People think that if it's been around a while or it's more complicated that it will work for them. More than 90% of us do this for fun, a hobby and are drugfree. I made the same mistake years ago trying to do a system drug free that seems to only work for guys on steroids.
My son and his partners have started another cycle, I will post there workouts and label them, day one cycle one and so forth.
This will be my final attempt to try and explain this system in its most simplfied form.
And you will see that anyone can benefit from this system when incorporated correctly. The only difference between what my son does and what I do is the bar weight and band tensions.
As you look through the 6 cycles that are posted in this section, that is the complete JA template. For 2-3 years I followed the complete JA system, did all the assistance and recovery days.
For the last several years I have followed the stripped down or simplified version of JA and the result has been an even bigger increase in strength, which is posted in my current JA log.
I am a firm believer now that rest and recovery is the most important aspect of strength training regardless of age and experience. Overtraining and rest and recovery go hand in hand. You can't go into the gym the day after a major squat or bench workout and do assistance and recovery exercises and expect to recover. I learned that quick squats and quick pulls, goodmornings and reverse hypers did more to inhibit rest and recovery than to enable it.
What has cemented this for me is the group of 13 & 14 year olds that I have been training. They do the same workouts that I do and with the same frequency and they have all made tremendous strength gains. The meet that they recently competed in for their age, weight and experience they all put up great numbers. Tom weighing 102 squatted 275 in his first meet ever in full gear, my son weighing 116 squatting 300 and both deadlifting 275 and 285 respectively.
I am a firm believer that bands will correct and strengthen any weakness that you may have. Rather than picking assistance exercises to develop a certain weakness, when correctly training with bands the bands themselves stimulate the entire body and correct any and all weaknesses. Again, the group of kids are a great example of how the bands have strengthened their cores and corrected all their weaknesses without incorporating assistance work and thus inhibiting rest and recovery.
It was great watching these kids compete, all using wide stances for the squat and deadlift and all able to stay upright and sit back allowing them to lift the weight they did and none of them ever doing a goodmorning or reverse hyper or any other assistance work. Training with the bands strengthened their cores and eliminated all weaknesses.
For whatever reason, alot of guys would rather do a system that incorporates big words and all kinds of different exercises. People think that if it's been around a while or it's more complicated that it will work for them. More than 90% of us do this for fun, a hobby and are drugfree. I made the same mistake years ago trying to do a system drug free that seems to only work for guys on steroids.
My son and his partners have started another cycle, I will post there workouts and label them, day one cycle one and so forth.
This will be my final attempt to try and explain this system in its most simplfied form.
And you will see that anyone can benefit from this system when incorporated correctly. The only difference between what my son does and what I do is the bar weight and band tensions.