http://www.athleticscoaching.ca/Use...epts/Verkhoshansky Quickness and Velocity.pdf this guy prof verkhoshansky is one of the top conditioning coaches in the world and has a forum too where you can ask questions
Very interesting, although full of fuzzy language, it was quite hard to read. An interesting bit for now:
translation: long runs are good to help you train more, not necessarly in a fight but having a good stamina will help you train more on your fight stamina. At least thats what i think he means.
Yep. Aerobic endurance may not help you when throwing a combination, but you need it to refill your ATP stores after you punched yourself out. The better your aerobic condition is, the sooner you will be ready for another sprint or combination.
That's very true. When I was in the police academy we use to do long runs all the time. Then, we would do floor exercises. It was much easier to do because your second wind would kick in while you were like five minutes into the floor exercises.
This just proves more and more that people need to keep mixing variety into their workouts. Their roadwork shouldn't consist of only sprints/speed-endurance exercise/lsd running, etc but a mix of all of them. A lot of people make a case for one or the other, when they should be mixing it all up. When I first started I used to run 20-30 minutes every day and do the same bodyweight circuit every day and thought that "it was the right way to do it because the oldschool guys did it". Now I know it's important to improve my body progressively, but to also be doing it in a variety of ways.
Bingo. What people need to realize is that "science" may be incomplete. That is exemplified by the fact that the so called science changes every month. Same goes for nutrition, all the sciences have been wrong so far. Had you believed them 10 years ago, you would have avoided fats at all costs, which we know now is very wrong. If it's not sports specific, vary.