https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archery-builds-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/archery-builds-strengthPeople who start from nothing and take up archery get stronger, at least in the arms, and studies of different designs say so. The most solid is a randomised trial on 34 sedentary young men: twelve weeks of shooting, three sessions of 42 arrows with a 35 to 40 lb bow at 10 m, raise the strength of the muscles tested by between 17 and 46 per cent, while in the group that does not shoot the values move between minus 4 and plus 6; the biggest gain is in the elbow flexors, from 33.6 to 49.1 pounds-force, while the knee extensors and hip abductors do not respond. As early as 1967, in 49 students on a university course, maximum draw strength had risen by five or six pounds over 24 lessons; in 2021, in 25 Turkish university students on their first Olympic archery course, finger pinch strength rose, although the course also included push-ups and elastic band exercises; and in 2025 two samples of adolescent beginners show more muscle mass in the arms after eight weeks and a stronger grip even in the group that followed only the ordinary programme, although that programme also includes archery-specific physical training. Three limits keep the status at reported. Only one of these studies has a group that does not shoot, the others are before-and-after comparisons; the gains are small in absolute terms, between 40 and 140 grams of muscle mass on arms weighing about a kilogram; and in people who already shoot, shooting alone builds no further strength, since in 12 university archers with at least six months of practice eight weeks of shooting training alone change neither grip, thumb strength nor back and leg strength.claim:tiro-aumenta-forza:revision:2026-07-29:2Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archery-builds-strength#storiaAn eight-week course for 25 Turkish university students new to Olympic archery points the same way: finger pinch strength rises in both sexes and, in the men, back and leg strength too, while hand grip does not change. The course also included push-ups and elastic band exercises, though, and there is no comparison group: it is another before-and-after study that does not separate shooting from strength work, and the only randomised trial is still the 2020 one. The status stays at reported.claim:tiro-aumenta-forza:history_entry:2026-06-13:2021Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/archery-builds-strengthclaim:tiro-aumenta-forza:new_claim:2026-02-09:riportatoMon, 09 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT