Compensatory Acceleration Training (CAT)

Compensatory acceleration training (CAT) was made popular in America by Dr. Fred Hatfield. Mel Siff, in his book Supertraining, explained CAT as the process of purposely accelerating a barbell throughout the entire concentric contraction phase of a lift versus allowing the load on the barbell and changes in mechanical advantage to dictate the velocity of the barbell. Today we will take a closer look at this important method.
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