Weight Lifting - Is it Predictive?

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I’ve had pretty decent success using Raceday to predict my power on a day-to-day basis. I’ve heard of others who’ve had better success than I, but I figured it is more likely my testing protocol, etc. Anyway, according to Philbert, we should be able to predict our power and pace on raceday.

Is strength training the same? I’m asking this question for a co-worker of mine. He’s not one to typically follow a plan and just does his own thing using his own intuition. Though I’ve repeatedly told him that he should probably ask for advice rather than doing it his own way and that he should be applying knowledge rather than figuring things out for himself, he doesn’t listen (he’s just out of college with a fairly substantial ego).

Anyway, today he was a bit disappointed when his max bench weight didn’t move up. Though he felt like he was getting stronger, it didn’t pan out. I figured that there was probably a relationship similar to the dose-response relationship that may have predicted this. Is there such a relationship? If so, an annotated bibliography would be helpful. I’d like to force him to do some research and learn a couple of things along the way.

Thanks.

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Banister’s impulse-response model (which is what is implemented in RaceDay) has indeed been used to successfully model the responses to weight training - see:

Busso T, Hakkinen K, Pakarinen A, et al. A systems model of training responses and its relationship to hormonal responses in elite weight-lifters. Eur J Appl Physiol 1990; 61: 48-54.

Busso T, Hakkinen K, Pakarinen A, et al. Hormonal adaptations and modelled responses in elite weightlifters during 6 weeks of training. Eur J Appl Physiol 1992; 64: 381-386.

(And for a complete bibliography - at least when it was written - go here: http://home.trainingpeaks.com/articles/cycling/the-science-of-the-performance-manager.aspx)

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Thanks.