Sep 2, 2019
<p>If you want to get strong, you have to stop doing
conditioning, right? While you may find that athletes do often get
stronger by focusing only on strength development, this does not
carry over well to mixed modal sport. Instead, a concurrent
training model (working on strength and conditioning
simultaneously) creates a more robust adaptation that carries over
to running around the block and doing deadlifts - in a way that
just focusing on running and deadlifting independently does
not.</p>
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<p><b>Show Notes:</b>
<ul>
<li>[0:12] Will conditioning limit your development of
strength? Maybe. But removing conditioning from a competition
program does not work well for CrossFit athletes. Even in fields
such as weightlifting and powerlifting, where sufficient
conditioning performance is not necessary to succeed, athletes are
completing some form of regular conditioning.</li>
<li>[4:31] Athletes will often need to do a focused training
cycle in order to gain muscle. However, it’s difficult to change
body composition (by either adding muscle or losing fat) for most
individuals. Having an off-season during a yearly training block
can be a useful tool in putting on muscle while also allowing the
body to take a break from stressful, high-intensity
work.</li>
<li>[7:13] Certain populations (those who struggle to cycle
moderate weight with consistency, those whose one-rep max limits
them competitively) can benefit from strength-focused training.
Most athletes still need to do a substantial volume of conditioning
work in order to do well in CrossFit.</li>
<li>[16:00] Training both strength and conditioning at the
same time builds robust adaptation. There may be trade-offs in
terms of the amount of strength that you can build relative to your
absolute potential, but the strength will carry over more to mixed
modal sport if you are training conditioning
simultaneously.</li>
<li>[21:52] The volume of movements like squatting done in
conditioning workouts needs to be taken into account when
programming strength development work.</li>
<li>[29:16] Having a plan for a “season” of training is
essential. Coaches and athletes should have priorities, and
structure training throughout a season to focus on developing those
priorities.</li>
</ul></p>