I was just adding some information to the Workouts For Athletes site. It hasn’t been a high volumn website and for the past year has been primarily targeted to the occupational athletes of the Everett Fire Department.
I was adding some thoughts I have had on a book I’ve been reading, “Practical Programming for strength training” by Rippetoe and Kilgore. In the current section there is much talk about explosive or near explosive (fast) training utilization as it better utilizes the full neuropathways to active more muscle into action.
Makes sense as with speed you end up in a get ‘er done mode. No screwing around so full use of all appropriate neuro innervasions is going to happen. For athletes this is essential and for all others a safe but similar action is beneficial as part of your periodization.
Below is a blog post from Functional Path Training, which had this little line that matched my above mentioned book reading. “Certainly force is part of the equation, but very slow heavy overloaded movements serve to dull the nervous system and interfere with the high speed coordination demanded in performance.”…………… Therefore I share. 
