This week’s guest is Angus Ross Ph.D, physiologist and strength expert working with High Performance Sport New Zealand.

Angus is currently employed by High Performance Sport New Zealand in a power physiology and strength and conditioning role, primarily working with track and field. I first discovered some of his work in my own research on muscular overshoot, where I came upon a slideshow he had done on special strength concepts for sprinting and jumping, and it was one of the best I’d ever seen. Angus has also written a couple (1 http://www.mcmillanspeed.com/2017/01/a-coaches-guide-to-strength-development.html 2) http://www.mcmillanspeed.com/2017/02/a-coaches-guide-to-strength-development.html of great articles on the idea of eccentric strength training on Stuart McMillan’s excellent blog, which I highly recommend reading.

There were so many great topics that Angus has spoke on across these three mediums, such as eccentric overload, chasing weightroom numbers, building rate of force development, foot training, and more. Angus delivered on these topics in our podcast, and then some!

Today, we’ll get into these concepts, as well as some ideas on other strength topics, such as “concentric only” work, muscle slack, core stiffness training, and more. This episode is particularly useful in the sense of how Angus really quantifies examples of athletes who will particularly benefit from eccentric training methods.

I can’t leave out the intro without mentioning the kBox, which is one of the most effective, if not the most effective way, to deliver high, specific eccentric loads to athletes.

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