Power

To be accurate, the striking or throwing skills should be executed from a body base that possesses enough strength to maintain adequate balance during the action.

A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remain unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

The athlete who is building muscles through weight train should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. Combined with adequate speed, flexibility, and endurance, high levels of strength lead to excellence in most sports. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.