We all know that the majority of amateur and professional sports out there are FAR from slow in nature. This being said, once mastered, Olympic weightlifting can greatly increase an athletes OVERALL Speed, strength and explosiveness in any sport.
That’s the beauty of it…..its transferable to most sports. As an athlete, giving your command centre (hips) the ability to be the main source of where power is generated, will make you a stand out in terms of a wide variety of aspects of that particular sport. Depending on the sport and/or the position of the player, things such as tackling power, speed, vertical, torque, kicking etc etc can be improved ten-fold with the correct utilization of explosive weight training.
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