Originally Posted by
Coachtj Cormier
Every exercise can be "dangerous" when done wrong.
Doing high reps/low weight is nothing like Hiit work(most Hiit work becomes aerobic pretty quick) you are doing more aerobic work then anaerobic with the workout you describe.
Also to start a "newbie" on something like that makes even less sense! You want them to build connective tissue, neuro- pathways and prepare them for bigger resistances your way will not and will probably lead to injury in the log run.
Using a sled/leg press takes away have of the exercise much less bang for your buck.
SLDL's are great but you gotta have some resisatance.
Well, exrx.net calls it dangerous, and having had my only weight-related injury from it, I have to agree.
I see that you disagree with the Friels. Back in the early 70's I used to do only trad lifting, but when Friel's CTB came out, I switched to doing it their way and had better results. YMMV.
I'm curious how you define "anaerobic." A properly done set of 30 takes 1 to 1.5 minutes, about the same length of time as a power interval. That fact that it would be impossible to continue for more than another 2-3 reps, or another 30 seconds in the case of power intervals, had always led me to believe that these intervals are powered by anaerobic reactions.
I'm also curious about your statement that HIIT work "becomes aerobic pretty quick." How is that?
Being a road cyclist rather than a track sprinter, I'm also generally curious and somewhat skeptical about heavy squats and deadlifts, vs. using a leg sled or press. Being of an age, I have arthritic facets, lumbar stenosis, thinned discs, and one disc with a compression fracture. Thus I'm somewhat disinclined to load my spine with exceptional weights. Moreover, it seems to me that these spine-loading lifts do not very well replicate the forces of cycling. I know that I pull up on the bars some when sprinting and climbing hard, but nothing like multiples of bodyweight which those lifts produce. Seems to me they go against the principle of specificity.
Are you familiar with this meta-study?
http://www.sportsci.org/jour/04/cdp.doc
Perhaps there are better and newer studies? My reading of this one says that trad weights are perhaps the least effective training modality for road cycling.