Should explosiveness or stability be a higher priority in an an athlete’s workout?

stability is trained before strength, and strength is trained before power.

A stable core is no doubt important for everyday activities, but for optimal athletic performance stabilizing the core is absolutely imperative.

I personally view the Hara" (the core), the physical center of being as the single most important part of training. My athletes know we follow a boom, boom core approach, meaning upper push/ squat (bilateral or unilateral) + core followed by - upper pull/hinge (bilateral or unilateral) + core. Also, we generally take an anti- approach to core training for example anti-ext ( ), anti-flexion (), anti-lateral flexion ().

My thoughts are this, if I can have my young folks build the ultimate relationship with core stability than we are ultimately able to create relaxation of the muscles promoted by a strong core, create greater freedom of movement, better control of power through patterns with less less extraneous or junk movement, and conserve energy through efficiency. Smooth power, it’s what we want and need when it comes to athletic development, shoutout to my ballplayers (my guys hitting dingers, and making it look good).

So I could totally geek out, and get into speed development and more here..but for the sake of answering the question, stiffness/stability is of ultra importance as it is the literal gas in the tank to strength and power development.