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Originally Posted by Lonewolf  Well I'm not aware of any studies seeing how powerlifters go in other sports; though wrestlers, strongmen competitiors, hammer throwers etc, use powerlifting movements in their routines. Like all great athletes, the best powerlifters tend to be focused specialists rather than people into general fitness. I think weightlifting has its place, but heavy explosive movements with maximum flexion of the joints have a great potential to cause injury, especially to the knees and wrists.
All in all there is a general correlation between strength and athletic ability except when you get into endurance sports like marathon running which is the opposite. |
Nah, that's just guessing. I'm actually writing an article about the benefits of olympic weightlifting. I have a couple studies stating about the safety of the sport. The one study showed an injury rate of 1 per 168,000ish hrs compared to soccers 6 per 100hrs. I also have a study comparing olympic weightlifting to powerlifting for football training and the OL increased the vertical jump and decreased the 40 significantly more than the PL group.
People just think it terms of muscle, but really with OL you are training body to fire all the muscle fibers at one time.
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One of the body building forums had a thread where they were showing lifters jumping after they'd completed a good lift. Dang, were some of those cats JUMPING!
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Yeah, I've seen 40ish verticals a 53in box jump and other feats like that.