Jordan Gill Training 2016 – Phase 1
Jordan Gill has had a fantastic start to the new year, progressing smoothly in his sports science program at Sheffield Hallam University.
The Ingle Gym prospect is aiming to break onto the featherweight scene in 2016, and he is currently preparing for his 16th professional contest taking place on Saturday 26th March, the undercard to stablemate and IBF Welterweight World Champion Kell Brook.
Aside his Boxing Science program, ‘The Thrill’ is doing all the right things on his quest for domestic glory, with world-class boxing coaching, sparring with talented professionals and nutritional support from David Stache.
Cleaning Up!
Phase 1 of his 2016 training has seen Jordan start his Olympic lifting journey by learning the clean.
Although we use deadlifts and rack clean pulls to ingrain similar movements and sequences, the clean is still a difficult move to learn but carries huge potential benefits.
The Clean teaches you to perform ‘explosive’ movements and promotes rapid kinetic chain sequencing, activating several muscles & joints in the process. This has a large transfer to any sport that involves running, jumping, throwing or striking movements.
Due to Jordan’s coachability and effort, the featherweight prospect has picked up the moves well and the numbers prove it. After 5 weeks of lifting and learning, Jordan has already shifted 50 kg on the hang cleans and 60 kg clean pulls.
Click here and learn how to do the clean!
Anaerobic Conditioning
When joining the program, Jordan was already really aerobically fit. So we prescribed high intensities with repeated sprints and red zone runs. He benefitted massively from this, increasing his peak running speed by 1.5 km/h and reducing his average heart rate by 10 bpm.
This suggested that Jordan was able to run at higher intensities for an extended amount of time.
Pushing Jordan’s fitness to the next level makes his conditioning training more complex and harder to improve.
Read the ‘Science Behind the Thrill’
In phase 1, we implemented a ‘muscle buffering’ training program. The aim of this programme was to improve the function of specific transporters in his muscle cells. These transporters we targeted are responsible for mopping (buffering) up compounds that make the muscle cell and surrounding structures acidic.
Increasing the functionality of these buffers should improve high-intensity activity.
We used 2-3 minute working sets where Jordan was required to run at a certain speed, as we wanted him to produce the optimal amount of lactate (10-12 mmol/L). If he ran too slow or too fast, the amount of blood lactate would either be too low or too high to stress the muscle buffers appropriately.
We monitored his blood lactate and speeds, comparing how he responded to the training program. Jordan improved his lactate:speed ratio by 20%
What does this mean???
Jordan produces less lactate at higher speeds.
This means that he is able to perform at higher intensities with less fatigue.
Phase 2 will be EXPLOSIVE
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