{"id":498,"date":"2015-03-12T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:21:35","slug":"reverse-engineering-the-athlete-or-engineering-the-athlete-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Engineering the Athlete or Engineering the Athlete in Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historically speaking, I have heard of 3 times where individuals and\/or coaches were trained trying to reverse engineer athletes.\u00a0 The first case I remember was my Kinesiology teacher explaining how the Russians tried to reverse engineer swimmers towards Mark Spitz and his swimming asymmetry in the hopes of increasing swim times.\u00a0 Ironically, Mark\u2019s coaches were trying to fix this asymmetry, which later increased his times and decreased the Russians times. In cross country skiing I\u2019ve heard that coaches were training younger skiers towards vagus knees in order to simulate the gait of advanced athletes.\u00a0 My dad once told me that the Japanese had adopted what was known as the frog style (below) olympic lift which incorporated a varus knee to compensate for valgus knees occurrence.\u00a0 I have yet to confirm all of these stories as it was often 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> hand information.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C5pTh_sZwpE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first 2 stories are a type of reverse engineering that were short sighted. One can assume that greater injuries likely occurred from the valgus knees stress on the ligaments of the knee along with the possibility of low back injuries.\u00a0 What can be gained by looking at these examples is to understand that chronic training can and does lead to asymmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Anecdotally, I\u2019ve used back squat partials in the past in order to get used to heavy weight and also to facilitate post tetanic potentiation.\u00a0 However what I noticed occurring is my body getting used to shortened range movements and my lordosis\/anterior hip tilt becoming more pronounced when squatting.\u00a0 I think this situation can also occur with people that only do power cleans and neglect to do full cleans but at a different level due to movement pattern.\u00a0 After all, the body is memorizing patterns and trying to figure out how to become more efficient at movement patterns by laying down fascia and soft tissue. I believe fascia is to blame for loss of range of motion while allowing for acute strength gains, also seen in isometric work.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I have in the past made the mistake of over attributing strength\/power as a quality that will have direct carryover.\u00a0 Strength\/Power do have direct carryover, but these two characteristics are amplified by skill.\u00a0 Once you have all 3 ducks in a row, mastery will follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically speaking, I have heard of 3 times where individuals and\/or coaches were trained trying to reverse engineer athletes.\u00a0 The first case I remember was my Kinesiology teacher explaining how the Russians tried to reverse engineer swimmers towards Mark Spitz and his swimming asymmetry in the hopes of increasing swim times.\u00a0 Ironically, Mark\u2019s coaches were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/?p=498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reverse Engineering the Athlete or Engineering the Athlete in Reverse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ironkladtraining.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}