Question: How does this uncut video of 3x12xlunges relates to the question, “What can we quantify?” I HIGHLY suggest turning off the volume as you watch it so you don’t have to listen to the background audio of practice as it takes away from the video.
This video was shot after a running workout, which means that athlete was less than 100% and to some degree fatigued from the workout.
But how fatigued?
So fatigued that the practice session should be changed, with no general strength? Was the running workout not challenging enough and more work should be done to get the appropriate overall stimulus for the day?
You can’t quantify the lunge numerically, but you can watch and when you watch you get a feel for fatigue levels.
Is he wobbly? If he’s wobbly is he “trying too hard” and taking monster steps with each lunge and going much deeper than the knee angles you’d see in sprinting? Can he keep is feet on the lane line? Can he do that when going backwards (when he can’t see the line behind him)? How’s the athletes’s posture and if it breaks down how does it break down and when in the lunge does is break down?
I don’t claim to have specific answers to the questions above, yet I think I’m better at watching a set of lunges after a workout (or long run) today than I could when this video was shot. I’m learning to see asymmetries, but more importantly I can get a feel for the athlete’s general level of fatigue. Because the movement of a lunge is elemental, something they should be good at, it’s telling if the suck at it, though sucking at it doesn’t necessarily mean we should move into a cool down of light mobility or an easy 10 minute run (and we’d have been done with the running cool down, having skipped a bit and run barefoot, by the time this video was shot).
You can’t quantify the lunges after a workout, but they can guide training.
…well, I guess you can quantify the lunges – you can quantify them as 3x12xlunges…
