Monday, March 24, 2008

Take-Home Message

As a performance enhancement specialist, lifting is a means to achieve an end, not an end in itself.

Athletes lift weights to prevent and rehabilitate injuries and indirectly enhance performance through neural, muscular endocrine and biomechanical factors.

If an athlete is injured, he/she cannot perform—period.

This sentence alone should convince you that the cost-to-benefit ratio of any training intervention should be as low as possible.

Our first priority is to not hurt an athlete in training.

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