[BLACK PANTA]

Has anyone heard of it or tried it. Apparently it's from the trainer that got the guys from 300 into such great shape.

[admin]

What is the premise?

[BLACK PANTA]

the premice is always changing your workout, never letting your body get used to anything. always shocking your muscles. You can view the 300 training video on Google, that is some hardcore training.

[dscott]

Looks pretty intense and hardcore. Actually, have you seen the way Sean Sherk trains? (besides the needle in the ass). When they did a UFC All Access on him, his training looked similar. Very unorthodox and hardcore.

[Wilhelm von Wänkenstein]

*bump*

As mentioned above, turbulence training is an extreme version of periodised training. Your body will adapt to any form of external stimulus over time, resulting in diminishing returns, be that stimulus sensory, mechanical or chemical. Periodised training is the orthodox method of preventing this, and most non-homogenous training methodologies are just variations of the periodisation protocol. Other versions of this include the Russian ladder (gradually escalating intensity to the limit of tolerance, then dropping back down to minimum intensity for subsequent rounds of escalation) and Sonnon's 4x7 protocol (which I believe involves multiple sets of escalating complexity). I personally use a micro-compressed periodised format for my own personal conditioning - cycles of three days, on each of which I do a different form of conditioning, done for two consecutive cycles before taking a rest day.