https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/conditioning-neglects-legs 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/conditioning-neglects-legsTwo studies from 2024, independent and carried out in different ways, point the same way for the legs. A questionnaire of 200 archers aged 13 to 20 at the European Youth Championships finds that 84.5 per cent strengthen the upper body, but only 49 per cent train the lower limbs and 49.5 per cent do aerobic work, with no difference between girls and boys. In 18 young recurve archers from Indonesian regional centres, a cluster analysis of physical tests finds only 3 athletes with a balanced profile between the muscles that hold the posture and those that hold the bow, and the authors infer that training was concentrated on the arms, with little attention to the legs and trunk. For the trunk, though, the data fall short: the questionnaire did not ask about it, and in the Indonesian study the largest group, first for arm strength, was second to last for sit-ups but third on the plank and the lumbar hold, in other words mid-table; that is why the claim covers only the legs. These are cross-sectional descriptions: the first counts what archers say they do, the second reconstructs training from test results. Nobody has measured what it costs, in points or in pain, to leave the legs behind.claim:lavoro-fisico-trascura-gambe-tronco:revision:2026-07-15:2Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/conditioning-neglects-legsclaim:lavoro-fisico-trascura-gambe-tronco:new_claim:2026-05-26:riportatoTue, 26 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT