Exellent stuff from Thibs.

[HumanPerformance]

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[Pseudonym]

Very interesting, HP - thanks for posting. A whole lot of new training theories for me there. Have you ever tried any of them?

[Elite121]

I have a few of his books he does have some good stuff.....lately Ive lost respect for him...... mainly to do with the Anaconda B.S.

[HumanPerformance]

Very interesting, HP - thanks for posting. A whole lot of new training theories for me there. Have you ever tried any of them?

Yeah Thibs allways seems to be at the cutting edge.

Have experimented somewhat with most of them as I try to keep up with what he is up to. The supination principle (in the first bicep movement) is quite well known and I often get clients to do a single arm curl with an olympic bar. The occlusion priciple (he mentions this on the third bicep movement) has interested me for some time,ever since the japanese did alot of research on it a couple of years back. So I use this with clients as well, although not to the same extent the japanese have done with tourniquets and the like. His theroies on training the muscle with high volume whilst de- emphasisng the negative I have used,particularly in cycles of de training a client where I want to keep the muscles stimulated fo a couple of weeks but want to give thier central nervous system (CNS)a rest. I think that this is going to become alot more prevelant in training programs over the next few years. This is because trainers are starting to realize that muscular system can recover amazingly quickly, and the same muscle can sometimes be trained multiple times a day (thibs talks about this on the second video). But it is the slow recovery of the CNS that holds us back from faster progression.

On the tricep training video Thibs talks the importance of contracting the muscle the in the flexed position. This is probably the the system of training I have used the most with clients .I started using it about 2 years ago when all that stuff came out about Ronnie and Jay Cutler using it in the form of (X reps) . I have had exellent results with it and now consider the stretched portion of any movement to be the most important for stimulating growth, not the "peak contraction" portion at the top.