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Introducing the Power Pull: Enjoying the Benefits of Explosive Lifting for Soccer Players Without the Risks and Hassles
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The explosive lifts, more commonly known as Olympic-style weightlifting, are important to the development of any power/power-endurance athlete. This includes field players as well as keepers. Why? Because soccer specific movement requires maximum force production of the whole body through the ground. This maximum power generation is best trained in the weightroom through the use of ground-based explosive lifts. Athletes need for ground-based strength training movements is based on the conditioning principle of specificity; they should train for maximum force production in a minimum amount of time.

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