"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." -Voltaire
When it comes to sport strength, it is best to consider weights a tool and not the end all be all. Every athlete needs strength to be sure, but they don't need to be power lifters or Olympic lifters or hold the phone, body builders for gawd sakes.
As a coach of a sport you need athletes with enough strength for the role they play on the team. You don't care if they squat double bodyweight or meet some other arbitrary bullshit metric. You care that they are strong enough for their role.
BTW, we wrote about strength coaches before, and even before that, even better, you may want to read that if you have not. It's not rocket science. A simple 1 or 2 set to failure program with the basic compound lifts either free weight or machine approximation done in a rep range suitable to athletes rather than powerlifters or Olympic lifters is ALL YOU NEED.
You don't need periodization, plyometrics, or any of that crap. Get in the weight room, lift and get out. Your players have better things to do, such as actually practice the sport they are in.
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