Workout of the Week Homework......

Dragan

Gets your chins on. You'll need them.

Dragan

"If you wish to truly exceed your current abilities, you must first understand what it is you are doing."

The above makes sense, don't you think? Well have a read of the below for why the hell should you do the workout of the week and what you should be taking from it!

The following paragraphs are excerpted from John Jesse’s remarkable book titled “Wrestling Physical Conditioning Encyclopedia" published by The Athletic Press, Pasadena, CA, in 1974.

Circuit training is a physical conditioning system developed by Morgan and Adamson in England, during the 1950’s, for use with low fitness students (as compared with fit athletes) in school physical education classes. It was designed to simultaneously develop the four aspects of general or athletic fitness: strength, power, muscular and circulo-respiratory endurance.

Circuit training uses three variables (loads, repetitions and time) at sub-maximal levels. It employs the principles of “progressive overload” by: 1) increasing the load, or 2) increasing the repetitions against a constant load, or 3) increasing the speed of performance, or 4) increasing the time a given position or load can be maintained.

Where the original concept of simultaneous development of the four aspects of fitness is desired the emphasis in circuit training is placed on decreasing the time required to perform the exercise or the circuit (doing more work in a given time or the same amount in less time), rather than increasing the resistance load. However, circuit training can be ruined if the athlete or coach pays too much attention to speed and sacrifices the correct performance of the exercise.

Circuit training can be biased towards development of a particular athletic quality. For power, fast explosive movements can be emphasized, exercises of general muscular activity with many repetitions can be used for general endurance and heavy localized exercises against heavy resistance can be used for the development of strength.

The exercises should be arranged so the athlete can proceed from one station to the next without undue muscular fatigue.

Circuit training is individualized training and every effort should be made to adhere to this principle, even in group training. However, some coaches with interest in saving time, use a preset circuit where the load, repetitions and exercises are the same for all members of a team or where only the loads are carried out on an individualized basis.