Triphasic Training

In September I’ll be breaking into my off season training from a new program on the market called Triphasic Training. It’s all about this graph:

Basically the bloke had 2 athletes (shot putters) who could bench press the same (directly correlates to shot putting distance) and were the same weight but one could throw a shot load further then the other and he wondered why that was.

He got some force plates and measured their force output and came up with this graph.

Triphasic refers to there being 3 contractions – eccentric (the line when it goes down), isometric  (where it meets at the bottom) and concentric (where it goes up) – with each playing an important role in performance and the need for them to be developed equally to improve total power output.

The guy with the greater shot put is blue.

Now comparing the eccentric, the blue guy has a quicker contraction then red guy (4.6 – 4.8secs)

For the isometric, the blue guy has a far quicker turnaround the red guy (the lowest point)

For the concentric, the blue guy has a greater output then the red guy (4.5 – 4.8secs)

So essentially the athlete who can absorb force the quickest (eccentric), turn that force into strength the quickest (isometric) will have a greater output (concentric).

I’ll dive more into this in the coming weeks and if you have any questions on it, just shoot them through to 

me.

The book can be purchased from this link: http://store.xlathlete.com/product-p/triphasictraining.htm