https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/strength-training-aiming-stability 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/strength-training-aiming-stabilityThe only experiment in the bibliography that measured aiming stability after strength training was run on twenty university students who had never shot: side bridges with the trunk inclined at forty degrees, five days a week for four weeks, and bow tremor while aiming fell in the trained group and not in the control group, with comparisons made within each group. The 2026 systematic review settles the point that had been left hanging, namely who those participants were, and adds a detail that narrows the result: alongside the tremor, the only other thing that changes is the median frequency of the middle deltoid, while upper trapezius, lower trapezius and serratus anterior stay as they were. On archers there is a randomised trial from 2008, on forty-five national-level Indian archers: four weeks of elastic band work for the shoulder and arm, together with breathing exercises, made the arm steadier in a seated test with a stylus held inside a four-millimetre hole, which is not aiming with a bow. The other strength studies run on archers measure score or strength rather than the movement of the bow or the sight, and the one that sets drawing force beside bow arm stability, in twenty-seven compound archers, finds no link between the two, but it compares different archers and tests no training. That a steadier aim goes with better scores is documented elsewhere in the registry; that strength work steadies the aim of a trained archer has not been measured with a bow in hand, and that is why the claim rests on a transfer from outside.claim:forza-stabilita-mira:revision:2026-10-09:4Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/strength-training-aiming-stability#storiaThe first experiment on archers comes from the Manipur Archery Association, in India: 45 national-level archers randomly assigned to three groups, and after four weeks of elastic band exercises for the shoulder and arm, together with respiratory muscle exercises, those who did them touched the sides less often than the other two groups while holding a stylus inside a 4 mm hole. That is arm steadiness in a seated test, not aiming with a bow, and the strength work is not separated from the breathing work. Aiming stability after strength training has still not been measured, and the status stays at not studied.claim:forza-stabilita-mira:history_entry:2026-08-13:2008Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/strength-training-aiming-stability#storiaA study of twenty-seven regional compound archers measures drawing force and bow arm stability together, and the two are not related on either axis: those who draw with more force do not hold the bow any steadier. It is not a training study but a one-off comparison between different archers, and the stability measure is of doubtful reliability, so it does not count against the claim: it only says that strength on its own does not turn into a steadier aim. The one experiment is still the one on students who do not shoot, and the status stays transferred.claim:forza-stabilita-mira:history_entry:2026-06-10:2025Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/strength-training-aiming-stability#storiaThe systematic review takes up that experiment and settles the point that was missing: the twenty participants were university students with no shooting experience, doing side bridges at forty degrees five days a week, and alongside the tremor the only thing that changes is the median frequency of the middle deltoid, while upper trapezius, lower trapezius and serratus anterior stay as they were. On trained archers there is still no measurement of aiming stability after strength work, so the status stays transferred rather than rising.claim:forza-stabilita-mira:history_entry:2026-04-07:2026Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/strength-training-aiming-stability#storiaA study measures activation and tremor of the shoulder muscles in archers during the shooting task, but tests no training: it shows that tremor can be measured, not that strength reduces it. The question stays open.claim:forza-stabilita-mira:history_entry:2026-04-07:2010Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/strength-training-aiming-stabilityclaim:forza-stabilita-mira:new_claim:2026-02-02:trasferitoMon, 02 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT