Glad you joined the discussion, Bill. Give Annabel my regards and encouragement. The Canadians are rooting for her!
I've trained quite a bit with Eric over the last 4 years and we've gone through a lot of ideas with static. So many ideas, and never enough time to really test them out properly. Or rather, the tests seemed to raise more questions than they solved. And I think a long term experiment is what I want right now. Which is why I'm trying to start from scratch and reconsider every possibility.
The idea with the tougher warm-up came from splenic contraction, releasing extra red blood cells, coupled with natural buffering of highly acidic blood (evidenced by lots o' contractions) . The theory was, the more intense the hypoxia on the first static, the greater stimulus for splenic contraction. Eric took that one step further by doing exhale statics to samba, usually two of them, before doing two max statics. The exhale statics contracted the spleen, but I think more importantly they sent the signal to the body that the hB wasn't adequate for what he needed it for--a training stimulus. Interesting that Annabel is using one. Any more details about what she does?
More is better: Well, I'd say Andy LeSauce was the king of consistency. I remember on his website he claimed something like over 2,000 five minute statics, a couple of hundred over 6 min, and fifty or so over 7min. Maybe he was on to something.
Pete
Vancouver, BC
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