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Originally Posted by Chris Correia
In the lifts, the muscles must decelerate a heavy moving mass to get the body into a fixed position or a change in direction. Surely, that can carry over to other athletic movements, even if they are not quite done in the same posture, position or movement. But, that may be more true for lower body deceleration than upper body. Just to be a devil's advocate, if the specificity of motion is so important, then athletes should select all of their lifts with more sport specific movement specificity in mind. If the explosive pull movement has value for the running back, why would not the deceleration training at the end of the movement -- going into a squat/partial squat and the slowing down that must occur to secure the weight and position -- have value for him as well?
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Matt, I edited my last post (quoted above) to clarify the logic (granted my knowledge may be lacking enough so as to flaw my assumptions).
And, personally, I just do power versions of the lifts for the reason of time/input-benefit ratio. Every now and then I'm tempted to make the effort to get coaching and learn full lift for fun, but then I get realistic.
Gotta go; check back later.