At what point is max. strength improvement not neccesary?

[WhiteLightning]

@fogelson

You are making FAR too many assumptions, most of which are completely incorrect or too general to be of any use to anybody. I know of two examples of athletes with drastically different profiles than Bolt who were quite amazing in their own right without ever achieving the strength levels you are talking about despite the fact that they did significant amounts of lifting. People who follow D3 probably know who I’m talking about, but a 5’3-4" 170lbs (not a typo) white guy with short tendons ran 10.30 and another white guy (5’7-8", mid 170s) ran 10.2high. Both achieved these performances with lifts that would fall below your assumptions and they certainly had better “lifting” builds than they had “sprinting” builds. The first guy did reach just over >2x BW in the squat, though did a good amount of lifting and trained for bobsled for a period (changing the circumstances) and the other did not come close to 2x bw in the squat, despite lifting hard for years.

I don’t think I’m the only one making assumptions, but I really don’t have any “lifting” assumptions based on 100 times. There are things with body types that can be general indicators, but they are not always true.

Also, I just don’t think Bolt should be used as the standard for what every aspiring sprinter should be doing. Bolt or even Powell is fast without this or that = making it true for everybody. Even the D3 guys you picked out, that is impressive, but in the end not sure what that proves if anything.