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There is a plethora of different options when choosing your training methods. We recently raised the question, “are training methods more or less important than exercise selection” and it was pretty conclusive that training methods are more important. But what are the factors that determine whether the training method you select will be successful??   Here’s a list of a several ideas to think about…we’ll explain more in a future blog post! Injuries – if you’re injure you must seek the assessment of a health care professional Existing Movement Qualities | motor coordination | Deficiencies | Movement awareness Training Status

Some of my favorite strength and conditioning researchers investigated (ahead of print), “the acute effects of moderately loaded concentric only quarter squats on Vertical Jump performance”[1] – Naoki Kawamori, Michael Stone, and Gregory Haff (giants in the field of strength and conditioning) and Aaron Crum. So why do we care?   Let’s first begin by describing potentiation which is the pairing of exercises to potentiate / enhance the performance of the second exercise. Typically the second exercise is vertical jump or sprint. Typically the first exercise will be either a high velocity exercise (i.e. plyometric jump), or high load (heavy