What.
Let me make sure I understand what you are saying; getting strong too quickly is bad because then it becomes harder to get even stronger? That is almost full retard.
If getting stronger is not your goal, then why are you doing any strength program, even as a supplement to an athletic activity?
Please explain what you are trying to say. I hope what you are trying to say is that if you are, say, a swimmer or a competitive cyclist, developing extra muscle might actual harm your performance more than the extra strength gains help, or that maximal exertion is not particularly beneficial in your particular sport. The extent to which this is true is another question entirely, of course.
What I meant was the time to take your squat from maybe 100lbs to 350lbs is minimal and easy/predictable, compared to then taking it from 350lbs to 400lbs, 500lbs etc. So there becomes a point where obviously 400lbs squat would benefit you, but not to the detriment of the time it takes to get there, vs your previous work to get to 350lbs. I did not mean there's no point getting to 350lbs cause you can't get further as fast, unless lifting is your only goal.
technically, I would say that the first part of this is somewhat true. (aside from the fact that the diminishing returns do not occur very quickly at all, and especially not to the point where it wouldn't be worthwhile to continue)
It does eventually lead to diminishing returns... but how this is a "problem" is beyond me :icon_conf
The problem is there isn't time to train everything, so why a general athlete, or in this case competitive swimmers, needs to train to massive numbers for reasons more than ego is beyond me.
What in the world is your athletic background that you have such a bias against strength training and don't understand that being strong is almost universally useful. The "nice idea Mark" bit makes me inclined to think this whole account is a troll. He posted (non-ironically) in one of the other threads to not strength train because you will be big and bulky.
I never said that, there is strong for your sport ie strong enough, then 'too' strong in the sense that to get there you have to sideline everything else. This will vary from person to person dependant on goals.
Talking of goals, if you'd actually bothered to read the thread I posted that in, the OP's primary goal was with not gaining weight while improving general conditioning. He was 15 with no lifting experience, he was recommended starting strength, so hardly trolling to tell him that is gonna make him add mass. If I wanted to troll I'd have told him he's too young to start building muscle because his body is focusing all its energy on puberty.