Wouldn't it be more sensible to strengthen the muscles individually and train the sport specific coordination aspect separately...? The disparity between the power output potential of the muscles involved is way too big to train them all together effectively... 🤔
@@maxl.5297 you could make the same argument against olympic lifts. The goal with them is not to replicate/mimic a specific sport movement but to train a general pattern (ie “triple extension”). The goal here is similar (ie train hip-shoulder separation, not replicate an a particular swing/throw).
@alecblenis Yeah, but Olympic weightlifts aren't good hypertrophy lifts either... Aren't Olympic weightlifters training their muscles separately, too? With a lot of additional skill work, of course 🤷♂️
@@maxl.5297 Olympic lifts are very popular among athletes outside the sport of Olympic weightlifting and incorporated in many good S&C programs. S&C shouldn’t seem to mimic sport, but it is certainly more than just hypertrophy exercises.
I would say that the resilience gained from exercises like this are much more important than the coordination aspects. Although, the movement is obviously extremely similar. You WILL be able to hit harder after doing this exercise for a few months - once you have gained coordination within the actual swing of the bat. Tennis is a little bit of a different story, as the racket is much lighter than a bat, and requires more speed than strength. Yet both DO require power in similar respects (tennis strikes are usually one-handed). But who's to say NOT to do exercises that don't coordinate muscle in a 1:1 ratio with the actual swing? I would definitely recommend isometric hold variations for tennis. Overhead isometrics and medicine ball throws (might help a lot with tennis serves specifically) are actually found in Alec's courses in the Ganbaru Method app.
![Blox Fruits Dragon Rework Update [Full Stream]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EqDAp8udhm0/mqdefault.jpg)
Great exercise! Thanks Alec! Can I do it with bands and how?
How would this fare purely for oblique hypertrophy?
Do you have a mimimal sole shoe recommendation?
Wouldn't it be more sensible to strengthen the muscles individually and train the sport specific coordination aspect separately...?
The disparity between the power output potential of the muscles involved is way too big to train them all together effectively... 🤔
@@maxl.5297 you could make the same argument against olympic lifts. The goal with them is not to replicate/mimic a specific sport movement but to train a general pattern (ie “triple extension”). The goal here is similar (ie train hip-shoulder separation, not replicate an a particular swing/throw).
@alecblenis
Yeah, but Olympic weightlifts aren't good hypertrophy lifts either...
Aren't Olympic weightlifters training their muscles separately, too?
With a lot of additional skill work, of course 🤷♂️
@@maxl.5297 Olympic lifts are very popular among athletes outside the sport of Olympic weightlifting and incorporated in many good S&C programs. S&C shouldn’t seem to mimic sport, but it is certainly more than just hypertrophy exercises.
I would say that the resilience gained from exercises like this are much more important than the coordination aspects. Although, the movement is obviously extremely similar. You WILL be able to hit harder after doing this exercise for a few months - once you have gained coordination within the actual swing of the bat. Tennis is a little bit of a different story, as the racket is much lighter than a bat, and requires more speed than strength. Yet both DO require power in similar respects (tennis strikes are usually one-handed). But who's to say NOT to do exercises that don't coordinate muscle in a 1:1 ratio with the actual swing? I would definitely recommend isometric hold variations for tennis. Overhead isometrics and medicine ball throws (might help a lot with tennis serves specifically) are actually found in Alec's courses in the Ganbaru Method app.