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Message: [QUOTE="Patman, post: 4394201, member: 3391"] This has been said for quite awhile and I like the the argument around it. Other activities let the other supporting muscularture build or some such. Similar idea might be that you prevent overuse and fatigue. Football culture has always been a culture of "overdoing it". Weightlifting culture basically says "there's only so much you can do even at the elite level". Football for a long time has gotten away with physically abusing elite talent because elite talent can take an above average beating and coaches don't know the difference between training and beating the crap out of elite talent. however, a lot of football is creating the mindset to break through mental safeguards for better or for worse. Also like the idea of not being able to make certain parts of the body stronger. i don't know how much of that is true or false but yeah, muscles are not tendons are not ligaments. When are we overdoing it and leaving people prone to injury. I like the idea but unsure what that means. Either way not unique to UConn and likely far better than 20-30-50 years ago. edit: that being said, RC111's point. Weird angles plus a lot of weight is going to defeat all your strength training prevention, sadly. Sometimes that's just going to happen. Tom Brady's leg injury that put him out for the year. What can you do about it? Not much. I mean we've seen elite athletes take injuries from the sidelines and these people are supposed to be the peak of fitness. Still a lot of very situational questions. Getting injured in training, IMO, should be avoided. That would be my bias. [/QUOTE]

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