ohh yeah we gotta love the affect long steady state cardio like jogging has on your knees and ofocurse http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...psyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0-gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5418,5598542 as a man i found this important lol
Personally I don't rate it for transfer to athletic performance... for powerlifters it's great but most sporting movements have the shank moving forward during movements. So I believe that a more 'weightlifting' style should be used, it has a greater correlation with jumping performance and having a more upright trunk would be closer to the position in a boxing stance. I'm of the school of thought that a squat should primarily be a leg/quad exercise, not a hip/lower back exercise.
No athlete should ever be doing bodybuilder style training. Hypertrophy in itself isn't bad (depending on how tight you are at a weight) but the type of hypertrophy and how it was achieved is very important. The typical high volume-low intensity training performed by a bodybuilder is every bit as detrimental to athletic performance as a typical boxing trainer believes about weightlifting in general.
The more anaerobic your training = the higher your basal levels of testosterone. Aerobic training and overtraining of any sort has the opposite effect. There is a correlation between fast twitch fibres and testosterone levels.
DW, what do you think about power cleans for athletes? (sorry this is a bit vague but I've heard alot of different athletes from different sports do them)