Week by week we all have certain experiences that teach us lessons about many different things. All the things we see, read, do, and hear can in any way at any time inspire a thought or feeling that can consequentially reform an idea that we posses.

This week has provided one such epiphany that I have been dabbling around in and doing some research to try and see what it can mean.
In a broad sense of training and sports, we classify ourselves to specialize in certain positions and disciplines. Each of these disciplines and activities require certain skills and strengths to make an athlete proficient at their position.  For instance a power lifter at a meet could have an extremely strong Bench press and then only mediocre remaining lifts.  A soccer player can have a fantastic long ball, but lack creative dribbling technique, etc, etc.  Developing pivotal skills in sports and activities takes time and dedication, and often times the reason that athletes are so specialized in their sports is that the time requirements to develop a well rounded performance is overlooked.  If we take the typical power lifter, he is big, thick, broad, and heavy.  Recently there has been a handful of athletes that have adopted a unique style to power lifting, they are more athletic, leaner, cut, and defined.  Though the raw amount of weight might not be as much, the pound for pound strength is incredible in these athletes, and because of the conditioning to make them athletic and lean, their additional lifts in a typical meet do not suffer from an initial 100% effort in their first lift of the meet.

That was just a quick example of something that I read that had inspired me.  So here is the idea... Genetics play a factor in body make-up and kinetic properties that favor certain disciplines, within these realistic parameters, I think it is more plausible to develop training routines that combine a 70-30% or a 80-20% ratio of training techniques, like training for power and endurance (being able to produce a full 1RM more than once in a single training session) or strength and explosiveness (producing massive amounts of force quickly as to minimize energy expenditure) and other combinations of more sport specific activities like a running back training to be explosive off a cut multiple times (explosiveness and endurance). This cannot be done in a 50-50 ratio, studies have shown that when combining two different types of training equally over a given time will actually reduce the benefits of both types of training.  In a ratio of 70-30 or 80-20 the smaller proportion is trained enough to add an extra bit of muscle memory that is enabled on top of a primary skill making it more efficient, not adding another skill entirely.

It's a work in progress. Ideas must be thought of first and foremost, then developed and perfected!