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I mostly exercise with a barbell, including snatch and clean & jerk. It's ridiculous to claim a barbell workout will give you much aerobic endurance. I also d

I mostly exercise with a barbell, including snatch and clean & jerk. It's ridiculous to claim a barbell workout will give you much aerobic endurance. I also do cycling and I assure you barbell fitness does not much carry over. It's very different metabolic pathways. I've also found the carry-over from weights to sub 400m sprint speed to be pretty weak. Come on. Barbells are not magic.

keeptrying 16y ago
In the end its all about specialization. A body which has been doing squats is not going to be a great runner at a professional level. But at our "weekend warrior" levels it does very much translate. I infact did this exercise on purpose to prove to myself that squats would translate. And it very much did increase my sprint speed. Dont take my word for it... Email a few strength coaches - Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson. Ask their opinion.
- rfergie 16y ago
  He should probably email a few sprint coaches as well to get a complete picture