TRAIN WHAT TRANSFERS
The weight room is designed to develop general physical qualities like mobility, stability, and strength. These are foundational across all sports but are not specific to any one sport.
True sport specificity begins by identifying the demands of the sport and the individual needs of the athlete. From there, training becomes more targeted by addressing individual limitations and reinforcing the movements, positions, and energy systems required in the sport environment.
Most skill development should take place in the sport setting — on the field, court, track, or ice. No tool or exercise in the weight room can fully replicate the timing, rhythm, or variability of sport movement.
That said, building a strong base of strength and movement capacity through consistent and progressive lifting, while integrating tools like sprinting, jumping, throwing, crawling, and climbing, can help bridge the gap between general development and the specific stresses experienced in sport.
In the end, nothing prepares you for sport like playing the sport.
The weight room is not the main priority. Its role is to support skill by helping athletes express and sustain high outputs while managing the physical stress of competition.
This is how true durability and long term performance are built.