Strength training has helped me in my asperations of becoming a better MMA fighter. As I grow stronger in big compound movements, I have less trouble navigating my opponent and positioning myself advantageously.

Sprinting is a powerful sport. This means it takes a powerful athlete. What's more powerful than lifting heavy weights? Every runner should have a good strength program behind them.

Building strength and muscle takes time. It doesn't happen over night, progress is measured over months. It takes carful planning to avoid injury and lead to good progressions in strength and aesthetics.

I believe that an athlete does not need to worry about lifting to look 'aesthetic'. From my experience, training to get stronger and more powerful always leads to looking better. This is why I do not tend to give my clients an easy program. Unless specifically requested, ALL my clients will lift heavy weights eventually. It makes you look good, and perform better. I also believe in training a movement pattern and progressively overloading on it rather than hitting a muscle from different angles. I feel as if training a squat or chin up or whatever movement will make you stronger over time, while choosing many exercises for one muscles often leads to a waste of time and no strength gains at all.