Description
The intent of a specialization program is to give priority to a muscle group or body part, for a limited period of time. Typically, a specialization program is done when a person realizes they have a lagging muscle group or body part.
During the last few decades Coach King has provided a number of these specialization program.
The Control Drills book contains such a program, as well as extensive information to help you understand, plan and train control drills– in a world that possesses a number of defaults that undermine the efficacy of most people’s attempts to develop joint control.
In the 1980s Coach King, through his involvement with physical therapists, was exposed to a significant gap in conventional strength training and that was the optimization of joint control and stability. Traditional strength training methods did not respect or address this. After the typical decade long development, Coach King introduced the term control drills, exercises and exercise names to address this specific training outcome, the concept and term ‘control & stability’ to recognize this unique strength training sub-quality, and models of periodization to integrate this proposed strength sub-quality into the periodization of strength.
The introduction of this ‘new component of strength training’ went through the usual ridicule, rejection and then acceptance as if it was always so. However, as with any ‘new trend’ that has market value, the concept gained many ‘new fathers’ (as in success has many fathers, failure is an orphan…) and as such the origin and intent of the concept was buried.
In the more than quarter of a century since, generations of strength athletes have been denied the power of this concept. The incredible training effects of control exercises have been denied because the conditions to optimize them have not been respected and communicated.
If you want to gain the full benefits afforded by the person who brought this concept to mainstream strength training in the first place, you will find massive value in this book.
The Control Drills book through its 147 pages, shares the following:
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is the purpose of control?
Chapter 2: What are the benefits of control?
Chapter 3: The need for a new sub-category of strength
Chapter 4: The periodization of strength
Chapter 5: Types of control exercises Chapter 6: When should I stretch?
Chapter 6: The concept of a Qualitative exercise Chapter 8: How much should I stretch?
Chapter 7: Obstacles to optimizing control
Chapter 8: Which control drills should I do?
Chapter 9: How to choose the training variables
Chapter 10: Understanding specialization programs
Chapter 11: Components of a workout
Chapter 12: Training Notes
Chapter 13: The Control Drills Program
Chapter 14: How to do the Control Drills
Chapter 15: How to progress Control Drills
Conclusion
Stretching Q & A’s
Additional Resources
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