https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/gym-and-bow-specific-strength Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/gym-and-bow-specific-strengthOnly one study has compared the three routes, and its result points the way the claim does: sixty Indian national-level archers split into four groups for twelve weeks, where those alternating gym work with bow strength work reached an adjusted mean of 590.7 points over seventy-two arrows, against 569.1 for gym work alone, 557.4 for bow work alone and 532.6 for the group that simply trained as usual. The gap over gym work alone is 21.6 points, and the control group did not move in twelve weeks: that is the figure that makes the rest usable, because it says that without extra work the score of national-level archers stays where it is. Two things stop this going further. The first is the design, since the groups were not drawn at random, the study comes from a single research team and the bibliography holds no replication. The second is the dose, since the combined group trained six times a week, more than any other, so the effect of combining cannot be separated from the effect of the heavier load. A 2026 systematic review concludes in the same direction, but it reads that same study and reports no effect sizes, and it also reports a programme that moved eighty per cent of the work onto coordination and technique, cutting maximal strength work, produced large gains in movement quality in seventy archers. The balance between general and specific work matters, and adding more is not always better.claim:forza-palestra-e-specifica:revision:2026-10-10:2Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/gym-and-bow-specific-strength#storiaA small Indonesian study tests only half of the question: six district archers who add bow-specific strength work gain almost nine points over thirty-six arrows, from 288.0 to 296.7, while six who carry on with their usual programme stay where they were. There is no gym group and no combined group, the two groups are not compared with each other and the journal is questionable: at most it says that specific work shifts something, not that combining it with gym work pays off more. The status stays reported.claim:forza-palestra-e-specifica:history_entry:2026-09-29:2024Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/gym-and-bow-specific-strength#storiaA before-and-after study on archers shows that compound-set work raises grip strength, but the score is not measured and the two kinds of work are not compared with each other. The question stays open.claim:forza-palestra-e-specifica:history_entry:2026-09-29:2022Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/gym-and-bow-specific-strengthclaim:forza-palestra-e-specifica:new_claim:2026-09-12:riportatoSat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT