Required Reading :
The above Kelly Baggett articles make an interesting point:
Often the explosive people physically will be explosive personality wise as well, short fuses, etc.
It was guessing that there’s correlation and that one could see cross over should they modify one side or the other.
I know there’s far more to it than this, such as genetics and the contrary point of half asleep disinterested weightlifters cleaning monster weights, but I know this;
At times when I want nothing more than to palm smash jaws, snap necks, pull triggers, and bend bitches over, that my power clean ability is better than normal.
Grab, rip, drop, repeat. At the end of sets ramming it overhead for easy jerks.
Over the years no weight room efforts have been affected by and affected aggression in me like heavy power cleans.
The first time I cleaned 225 (after years stuck at 205) I saw red, screamed motherfucker at likely full volume (I can get loud), forgot to jerk it, and after the bar was on the floor I stood head touching the wall face first, fists clenched, fuming.
I was told by a friend after the fact that I had likely made the nearby MILFy blonde piss herself, and that one of the trainer girls in the next room ran over to check thinking that a severe injury had occurred.
I imagine a successful backflip would cause the same kind of reaction, being that it’s something that I’ve yet to do and is similarly badass. I’ve come quite close to landing one at 17, but have never done it. (At 6′ 235 after a track meet on a dare standing on the high jump mat I made the rotation but landed on my knees)
I’m liking explosive and power training lately. Get the clean from comfortable 255 and max 275 to 315 comfortable and an even higher max, then start getting backflips and vertical/dunking.
Outside of sprints I was not very explosive growing up, that’s changing and it feels great.
I’m finally beginning to horsepower my way through “bad” clean and jumping mechanics.
However it’s not hard for me to convert power into power endurance and that’s what I want big time for fighting.
The training shift is happening.
-J