Train Movement, Not Muscle

Sport is about movements and reaction to other movements. It is about making sure your movements are quick, powerful, compact and explosive. They need to be precise and the movement needs to be effective. Sport is all about movement. How effectively do you move your body will generally determine whether or not you win at sport. How fast is your movement? How quick can you stop your movement? How powerful is your movement? How athletic is your movement? This is the basis of sport and is the basis of training to be better at sports. In sports performance training the training needs to be about improving movement and maximizing the efficiency, power, strength, coordination and explosiveness of movement. Sports performance training is NOT about training a muscle to grow or to contract better when pumped so that it looks good. Nothing about sports is about looking in a mirror to judge how the muscle looks. Looks have nothing to do with sports and training muscles is all about looks and vanity. Athletes should be too focused on winning and how to go about accomplishing wins to worry about how they look in a mirror. Muscles are reflected in mirrors. Movements are reflected in sports and the person with the best movements will win. It is simply that simple. As a sports performance trainer we train the movements. I let personal trainers train their bodybuilding clients in front of mirrors looking at themselves and watching their muscles grow. This works for many people and they should be complimented that they are in the gym working hard trying to better themselves and attain a healthy lifestyle. But that does not mean that I accept bodybuilding for athletes who need to be faster, more powerful and quicker. If you want to be more explosive then doing bicep curls simply will not help you achieve your goal. So stop focusing on the size, feel and look of your muscle and start applying movements to your muscle and allow them to become more athletic so that you can become more athletic and then you will truly start to become a sports performance athlete.