Do You Get It
For the person that wrote in to say
they were proud to be a muscle head, I am glad you are proud to be a
muscle head. If you take the muscle head approach I would like to play
your team everyday of the week! Some of the comments on my recent post
have been almost absurd and in some ways surreal. Men, women, boys and
girls it is not just about strength. It does not matter that Olympic
lifters are the strongest athletes in the word,that is their world and
their sport. Someone asked what is soccer strong? Soccer strong is the
ability to hold off an opponent, win the 50/50 ball and win balls in
the air. It has very little or nothing to do with how much you can
clean. Strength is only one biomotor quality. And it interacts with all
the other biomotor qualities to produce athletic performance. Whether
or not people want to admit it there are injuries whose genesis is in
the weight room. I am making a plea for sanity. It is really hard for
me to believe that in 2007 with everything we know from sport science
and good practice that all of this is still an issue.
