Tests employing free barbells will reflect the functional strength of the soccer player more accurately.[57] Furthermore, free barbells are readily available to most teams and provide more teams the potential to develop a meaningful functional testing programme in conjunction with strength training. In strength-training studies, it has been observed that measured increases in strength are dependent on the similarities between training and testing exercise. This specificity in movement patterns in strength training probably reflects the role of learning and coordination.[102,103] The neuromuscular system also reacts sensitively, in terms of adaptation to slow or fast contraction stimuli.[25,104] Increased peak torque has been observed at, or near, the velocity of training[ 105,106] and at speeds below training velocity.