Strength Training Vs Weightlifting

For every great athlete strength training or weightlifting is part of their daily routine. The question is how does weight lifting strengthen an athlete's body and improve performance? There are many benefits of using the correct technique when strength training. Over the last 100 years athletes have changed their lifting technique and have become better because of those changes. In order to become a great athlete, individuals must work out and strength train, using proper techniques; if they don't they will remain at an average performance level.
Strength training has a different meaning to every athlete. For one athlete it could mean, “The physical labor of lifting weights to improve your physical look, health, or to become a more dominant …show more content…
Both cardio and strength training a beneficial for athletes but cardio has some advantages over strength training and same with strength training over cardio. If the person or athlete wants to look good or feel good looking at themself then cardio is a better outcome than strength training. For the athletes that are reading this that play sports like soccer, cross country, and track strength training is also a very great tool. Strength training increases speed. This is proven true because it increases the speed in which your kick off the ground is stronger and faster(“Poliquin Group” 2015 p.1). Strength training is not the only way that athletes stay on the top of their performance. Athletes also do very much cardio vascular training. Different sports have their perspective …show more content…
If it's from football and how the athletes can not lead with their head or to how athletes bodies have changed to make them the most advantaged athlete they can become. Over the past one hundred years athletes have changed to how the sports figures has changed. In the 1920’s had the thought that the average height and the average weight were the perfect. IN the 1920s the elite high jumper and elite shot putter were the same height and weight. now the average olympic shot putter is two to three inches taller and one hundred and thirty pounds more than the average high jumper. [Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?](2014, March). Not only has the body types of these athletes changed throughout the years but so has the technology of the sports. For every level football programs in the country they have changed the way you can and can not hit someone due to concussions. To how track surfaces have changed. They have gone from cinders which is ashes from burnt wood to a fabric that makes athletes run as fast as humanly possible. while technology has been changing so hasn't the way people look at lifting supplements and performance enhancing drugs. As scientist has found out how much performing enhancing drugs have made athletes much better and have made them improve into very impressive games and very impressive games played. This is know doubt that athletes perform better when on these