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Topic: Tendo Units

Posted By: mitcbren
Subject: Tendo Units
Date Posted: 3/10/13 at 9:32pm

I am trying to help our head strength coach get a concrete understanding of the utilization of Tendo Units. I was told that many of the Scottish Games athletes use these types of devices so I was hoping to find some information on here. My question is depending if you are in a maximal effort, strength effort, dynamic effort or repetition effort, do you have certain velocities you try hit? Obviously ME is going to be of a slower velocity then a RE, but I was just wondering if anyone has developed some sort of velocity range for each type of effort?

Thanks, Brent Mitchell

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Posted By: Ryan Stewart
Date Posted: 3/11/13 at 9:11am

You need to talk to John Gallagher or Burt Sorin. They are the most educated about the subject. Just PM them.

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John Gallagher- "MASS MOVES MASS"

Posted By: Trainerterry
Date Posted: 3/15/13 at 9:46am

dynamically I keep to the following

snatches 1.7 meters a second

cleans 1.5 meters per second

presses with band or chain .8 m/s if using Westside type DE training

squats .6 m/s

for other work on cleans and presses I will use the power output instead of speed to concentrate on getting more horsepower and create intent

example would be yesterday I did cleans off blocks and used the tendo to give me the weight to use like I would for speed work but instead as I raised the weight I increased the wattage I put out. As long as I could create more wattage I increased the weight until I hit a point where even though I could finish the lift the resultant power produced was less. For that exercises (for me) it is about 70% of my max. Technique issues aside..this would show that for highland games work i should work I need to work on my speed at the lower weights as i would think this should be accomplished at a lower weight. If the % at which I reached the max wattage output was lower... I would spend more time on Max effort type work.

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