The Juggernaut Method 2.0: Strength, Speed, and Power For Every Athlete
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The Juggernaut Method 2.0 - Chad Wesley Smith
WHAT IS THE JUGGERNAUT METHOD
The Juggernaut Method grew out some simple training cycles I had my athletes doing. They were doing something to the affect of…Week 1-5x5 at 70-75%, Week 2-3x5 at 80%, Week 3-Work to a 5rm. I normally intend for a 5rm to be done around 85% and my athletes would complete their set of 5 with 85% and then often another with 5-15 pounds more. They would then either perform another wave of 5s with a new exercise or move onto a similar program of 3s in the same lift. The program was working pretty well.
Juggernaut’s 2012 College Football Prep Class was filled with tremendous workers and athletes
During a break from my track competitions I decided to give this plan a try myself. In the squat the first week I did 455 for 5x5, the next week I built up to 495 for 3x5, and in the third week 545x5. Immediately upon racking the last rep, I had a realization — I should have kept going. Five reps wasn’t hard, I could have done 8, I should have done 8. That began the process of me critically thinking about this simple program, fine tuning it and making it grow into what you see before you now.
The Juggernaut Method has grown out of 3 main influences: Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1, the training of the great Doug Young and Block Periodization. From 5/3/1 it takes the idea of a progressive overload system of percentages, making small incremental gains, setting rep maxes and simplicity.
Doug Young, a tremendous physical specimen and top bench presser from the 1970s, utilized rep records to influence his training weights on a weekly basis. Young’s training would focus on a final limit set each session. For example, he would perform 4x6 for a few weeks but instead of performing only 6 reps on the last set, he would perform as many as possible and for every rep beyond 6 completed, he would adjust the next weeks weights accordingly. The Juggernaut Method borrows this idea of adjusting the athlete’s training weights based on their performance, instead of just a standardized number.
When I say that the Juggernaut Method has been influenced by Block Periodization, it is more in spirit than practice. Block Periodization is broken into 3 phases: Accumulation — a high volume general phase, Intensification — where intensity increases along with specificity, while volume decreases, and Realization-in which intensity reaches a peak during the competitive season. I have borrowed this language in the form of an Accumulation, Intensification and Realization week within each training wave. I will discuss the idea behind each week a bit later.
The Juggernaut Method is an effective training plan for a wide variety of disciplines, from any sport that would benefit from increased strength, speed and power, to competitive powerlifters or strongmen.
JUGGERNAUT TRAINING PHILOSOPHY
All of the World’s strongest and fastest athletes train differently, some front squat, some back squat, some power clean some don’t and while these differences in training exist everywhere, there are a few things they all have in common, they all Sprint, Jump, Throw and Lift. These movements are the foundation of all athleticism and therefore should be the foundation of your training. Focusing your training on these basics will get you stronger, leaner, faster and more powerful in every way. Let’s examine each element a bit more in depth.
Oakland Raiders’ 2012 4th Round Pick and Juggernaut athlete, Miles Burris, is a prime example of the impact sprinting will have on your physique.
SPRINT
Sprinting is the highest velocity that the human body can move and because of this, it provides a tremendous stimulus to the body. If you have ever seen a high level sprinter, you know that they are thickly muscled through the lower body, shoulders and back, while being absolutely shredded. The high velocity and whole body nature of sprinting is great to recruit fast twitch muscle fibers and provide a powerful fat burning effect.
There are three main areas of focus when training sprints, acceleration, maximum speed and speed endurance. Acceleration training will cover distances up to 30m, maximum speed work is done from 30-60m and speed endurance work can be from 60-300m or repeated efforts at shorter distances with incomplete rest periods (which is known as alactic capacity)
Chad is a prime example of how jumping will carryover to your maximal strength.
JUMPS
Jumps are the best way to develop explosive strength in the lifter, because they come at a lower neurological and physical cost than sprinting. Jumps will help the athlete to develop the high rate of force development needed to be explosive in the squat, bench and deadlift. Note that I said the bench, because my definition of jumping encompasses both lower and upper body jumps. Lower body jumps are more traditionally understood and include jumps up (box jumps from the standing or seated position, jumps up hill), jumps down (altitude landing from a box), jumps up and down (depth jumps, hurdle/barrier jumps, reactive jumps for distance, reactive jumps up and down to a box).
It is important that when training jumps, the first thing that must be taught is how to land properly. Landing softly and demonstrating proper body control is paramount to training jumps properly and safely and are both qualities that will be evident in any good power/speed athlete. These same principles hold true for upper body jumps, consisting of pushups onto boxes, drop pushups (jumping off boxes and landing on the floor), rebound pushups (dropping off of one box and jumping onto another) and various other variations (clapping pushups, pushups while alternating hand positions, etc).
THROWS
Medicine ball throws are a great tool to develop explosive power through the entire body. Medicine ball throws are superior developers of explosive power to Olympic lifts because of their uninhibited triple extension, multi directional/planar movement, high velocities and ease of learning. Olympic lifts are limited by the fact that you hold onto the bar at the completion of the lift, meaning that whether consciously or unconsciously you will decelerate at the completion of the lift. This though is not the