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The Sport Specific Approach to Strength Training Programs
Sport-specific strength training programs are fundamental to an athlete's development and success. Long gone are the days when coaches shunned weight lifting for fear that it might hinder the performance of fine skill and correct technique. It's now accepted that high levels of strength are a prerequisite to superior speed, power, strength endurance and overall sporting performance.
Building a trebuchet from scratch and finding the best proportions, weights, angles etc by trial and error certainly works ..well, that's how the Grey Co's first machines were done... but if you could model the rock-throwing beasts mathematically then think of the work and possibly wasted effort you could save.