Strength. ⁣ ——⁣ “The basic outline is this:⁣ 1. Strength is a cheat code. All things equal the stronger athlete wins. Strength is the reason we don't allow 200-pound adult men to compete on the same playing field as teenage girls. We use strength as our secret weapon.⁣ 2. We express strength in sport in the forms of speed and explosiveness. E.g., in racing, force into the ground leads to a faster performance.⁣ 3. We convert gym strength to sports strength through specific work — for example, in racing, there are high power intervals and hill repeats. This is important. You don't build much strength running hills or intervals. But these sessions allow us to convert the gym strength into applied sports performance.”⁣ ——⁣ “Alwyn Cosgrove is an international Tae kwon-do champion who has utilized his personal experiences as an athlete and combined them with advanced theories of European Sports Science and the principles of modern strength and conditioning systems. He has worked with a wide ...