Some of the fastest, most powerful athletes in the world are also the biggest and strongest. Football players and Olympic sprinters/hurdlers can run incredibly fast and are amazingly agile in spite of having huge, muscular legs. High/Long/Triple jumpers display a lot of explosive power in their events and all are avid weight lifters. Basketball players lift weights so that they can take off from the free throw line and slam dunk a basketball. Only traditional martial artists adhere to the philosophy that weight training somehow makes one slow.
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