For many years, high school and college athletic coaches frowned upon their athletes doing any sort of weight training. However, as television brought more money to professional sports, college and even high school athletic programs worked to increase the performance of their athletes in order to keep up. As a result, kids became stronger and faster in order to advance. Weight training, sports supplementation, and other bodybuilding fundamentals quickly became part of every sports program in the nation.

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Explosive, or ballistic training, involves lifting extremely heavy weights in a style not typically associated with bodybuilding. Instead of calmly moving the weight in a controlled manner, the trainer drives the weight up in an explosive manner. Speed is emphasized. The goal isn’t the ‘pump’, as with most training. The goal is simply to lift a heavy amount of weight as fast as possible using the entire body.

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