Why just being strong isn’t enough

I got the question the other day from one of my athletes ( who has basically been a powerlifter his whole life) on why he can’t jump higher despite having elite strength levels

Here is the thing:

Powerlifters or people that basically only do heavy strength training get all the good adaptations that we basically want to obtain from strength training as athletes. They mostly get stiffer tendons and an insane capacity to produce force

however…

They don’t have the ability to produce this force rapidly ( rate of force development) and they often don’t have the ability to produce force rapidly eccentrically.

So in his case we need to focus on reverse engineering his body. Do a lot of plyos, work on rapidly expressing force and power etc…

Obviously this is not the average athlete. He has insane strength levels . Most of you are just the other way around. You’ve probably been jumping and sprinting your whole life and do possess these qualities.

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