Is bodybuilding making you un-athletic and slow?
When it comes to traditional bodybuilding training and high rep pump training, the muscles are trained in isolation a lot! Everything is aimed at generating a pump and working the perfect mind-muscle. Where this is great if you’re purely looking to look bigger, the downside is that even if strength continues to go up as muscle mass increases, your speed, power and athleticism will lag behind. You could be training more slow twitch, muscular endurance muscle fibers instead of fast twitch muscle fibres responsible for strength and mass…Slow twitch fibers have much less potential for hypertrophy too! Time to start adding in some power movements…
Benefits of implementing power work
- Increase your strength, leading to greater muscle gains over time.
- Work more fast twitch muscle fibres for size and help improve your overall conditioning/performance
Our Top 5 Power Movements:
- Barbell Snatch Grip High Pull
This exercise is great for your lateral shoulders, traps, upper back and power. - Seated Box Jumps
To develop awesome power in your lower body. - Incline Plyo Push Ups
Not only is this a great upper body power builder, but a great way to warm up for heavy pressing movements too. - Banded Kettlebell Swings
Build explosive hip drive power with these resistance band swings. - Plyo Bulgarian Split Squats
Working your limbs uni-laterally is great to bring any imbalances up to scratch. These develop single leg power like no other.
