Originally Posted by
Michael Wolf
This is the key insight. It's very hard to prove with convincing data that strength training directly led to less injury, better stats, etc... You could probably do it with a large enough data set over a long enough period of time, but that's basically impossible to get, especially with any kind of reasonable standard to what the "strength training" entailed and how progress was measured. In the absence of good theory and good data, I don't like to make absolute knowledge claims, but falling back to good theory and the small amount of good data that comes from it makes a stronger case than anything else I see out there.