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– An accessory work is, basically, your weak point training. So if we take this biassed programming we talked about in our last module, we turn this into weak point training for accessory work. This is where, okay, I have a weakness in my hamstrings. I want to isolate that. A weakness in my posterior, try and isolate that. My triceps are weak. I need to isolate that. I think, ’cause this is in Vogue at the moment, yeah? There’s a lot more of the functional bodybuilding isolation stuff starting to come back in. I think the pendulum has swung too far the other way. So the pendulum swung to no isolation work, or compound exercise. Now its swung all the way back to, yeah, we need to include a lot of isolation exercise, weak point training. I don’t agree with either extreme. I think it needs to be in the middle. And I do think its currently swung too far back towards isolation-based work at the moment. The reason being, the research that was done by early Soviet researchers, by people like Louie Simmons, Westside Barbell, the Conjugate Method, looked at power lifters, people who wanted to be better power lifters, not generally multi-sport athletes like we’re talking about, here. So, is this of use to CrossFitters? A lot of the power lifting work, the accessory work for power lifters, will be pushing sleds and prowlers, they’ll do stuff like kettlebell swings, hip extension work for higher rep work. They’ll do dips to help as accessory work for their bench press. These things sound familiar? You guys are doing this stuff anyway, so I believe, and my opinion on this, is that good balanced programming already contains the accessory work. I don’t believe you need to add in more power lifting accessory work for a general population of CrossFitters, or a general population of exercisers full-stop, because if your programming is biassed towards the areas of weakness anyway, I believe that that is going to be covered.
