Is this statement true?

[Track_man]

@lkh

I think this gets you back to Charlie’s position about general versus specific. If you were going to depend on any weights for a specific stimulus, you could argue against doing weights at all from GCT. The specific gains from weights seem limited to the first 5-10m (remember those posts about elite shotputters beating elite sprinters to 10 meters).

One peer-reviewed paper I’ve seen compared different strength approaches for 100m performance, and found that CMJ was best for acceleration in the 0-30m range, bounding (for height) was best for 30-60m (i.e., MaxV for non-elites), but squats were the best approach for sprint performance overall (the general vs specific thing).

lol first weight lifters beating sprinters, now shot putters :eek:

But I just think that if you really get into ground contact time… what about jogging? tempo? all those have higher GCT than sprinting and are still needed for different purposes.