What is ballistic weight training?
An athlete training on Cormax equipment accelerates the weight throughout the lift and releases the weight at the end of the lift into “free space.” A ballistic lift is an athletic movement that activates and trains the fast-twitch muscle fiber. In traditional weight training the lifter must hold the weight, slow down the weight, stop the weight, and then return the weight to the starting position. Traditional training requires mostly slow-twitch fibers. Ballistic training, trains muscle to be fast. Traditional strength training is concerned more with muscle size than muscle speed. Research has shown that increased muscle speed, not muscle size is more beneficial to athletic performance. Since most athletic movements are explosive, the slow speed contraction of muscle with traditional weight training has limited positive transfer to sports. Ballistic training also provides a highly effective cardio-vascular workout. A sequence of high intensity ballistic lifts requires full muscle util
