If relative strength is king and we must build it from the ground up to create lower body dominant athletes then... the truth must be in the numbers...
What are the numbers that go with this process?
If you're working with a professional athlete on a $100mil contract and you have 6 weeks to help them get through the next season... what should you do?
If you have a premium client who's done ATG Online but wants a more personalised experience... how can you offer that?
ENTER THE ATG PROFILE.
What if we had exact data of where the relative strengths and weaknesses of our athletes / members were?
Could we accelerate their progress by emphasising improvements in the areas that they need to improve most?
LET'S TEST THIS IDEA
Here are some sample numbers of what an ATG Profile might look like. You can customise it for yourself and make suggestions for improving the standard ATG Profile.
HISTORY OF PROFILING
Military profiling of physical performance goes back as far as human history.
Modern profiling of high school children has been common in many countries for decades.
In Soviet Block elite sports athletes were profiled for their suitability for different sports. Most countries have some version of this system in their elite government backed sporting systems.
In athletic development attempts have been made to identify fast and slow twitch athletes... some systems work on the weaknesses while others double down on the strengths.
Examples include the Poliquin maximum repetitions with 85% of 1RM for the day.
More than 5 reps means you're slow twitch dominant.
5 is mixed.
<5 is fast twitch dominant.
Force profiling examples include:
Henk Kraajenhof - Squat Jump, Repeated hop (15 sec) (there are 4). He encourages working on the strengths.
Pause Squat Jump to Counter Movement Jump to Depth Jump Ratios.
DB Hamer - Time to complete full cycle 1RM Bench press (Less than 5 seconds is Rate Dominant). He encourages working on the weakness.
Cal Deitz calculates based on 20 yard dash 5-10-20 splits. He encourages working on the weakness.
STRUCTURAL BALANCE
Popularised by Charles Poliquin.
The idea is that different areas of the body should be in balance to each others.
We all know that relative strength increases strength reserve and capacity of power development but WHERE that relative strength is developed will make all the difference for the performance and bulletproofing effect of the strength gains.
Charles' system was very detailed for the upper body but didn't have the detail of ATG for lower body. The extremely precise numbers in the ratios may have decreased some of the usability of the system and decreased the number of coaches and athletes who benefited from the concept.
There are now a lot of lift balance calculators but that is not the primary function of structural balance as I understand it.
Finding the special lifts to bring up the lagging muscles and lagging key lifts is the end in itself.
The lagging muscles leak power and performance and create injury risk.
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