????️♂️ Olympic lifts have the next highest carryover to directly improving sport performance in sports where strength, power, and speed are essential.
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1. Big Power Boost
Both sports demand explosive power for actions like sprinting and tackling. Weightlifting exercises, like Snatch and Clean and Jerk, help you build that explosive strength for better performance.
2. Getting Stronger
Weightlifting helps players build functional strength.
3. Injury Prevention
By strengthening muscles and stabilizing joints, weightlifting can lower the risk of common injuries in these contact sports.
4. Speed and Agility
Weightlifting drills improve agility and speed, crucial for quick moves and dodges during play.
5. Being More Athletic
Weightlifting enhances coordination, balance and, body awareness skills every player needs.
6. Mental Toughness
Weightlifting challenges the mind, teaching focus and determination.
????️♂️ In short, Olympic Weightlifting isn’t just about getting stronger, it’s about becoming a better player overall, and that’s why we at CFI make sure that we offer a tailored program, a winning choice for Rugby and GAA athletes too.
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