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2006/05/11, 11:42 PM
When I first started training others, I would examine every detail of their workouts, how their body moved, responded, what they were doing, etc...
I looked to science for everything...
Well, since I have started competing in strength competitions (strongman competitions, now highland games), I have turned more and more to conventional gym wisdom...
You see, I feel many people overanalyze. I am guilty of this... Very guilty...
I know the science of working out better than almost anyone I encounter. However, have spent enough time in the gym to learn that you can't learn everything in the gym...
I have been fortunate, very fortunate, in that I have had the good luck of being able to train with those in the trenches (Tate and Wendler, Cosgrove, Defranco, etc), as well as your standard gym rats.
Maybe it is just me becoming bitter, but people come to me all the time. I always notice what is wrong biomechanically with their execution, or physiologically with how they are responding, or kinesiologically with how they are training.
However, more and more, I don't care. I find myself telling people to just toughen up, and stop being such a wuss. Rather than taking the time to explain things, I just don't care anymore. I am starting to believe that gains that are not made because of training incorrectly, and more because people don't put the effort they need into what they are doing... More and more, I tell people to just suck it up and train harder...
And its working...
Maybe I'm just rambling, but you want to get stronger? Train with someone stronger than you? Want to set that PR? Well then shut up and do it. I have missed lifts, gotten pissed off when my partners start to take of the weight, stepped up, and hit the weight like it was nothing without even taking a rest. Shove that up your ass, cns.
I still spend my free time reading spst. I still stay up to date on all the latest developments in the strength training world...
But in the gym... All that matters is one thing...
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Iron and chalk.
Pain is only temporary, it is in your mind. If you can still walk, then you can still run.
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2006/05/13, 12:44 PM
Very good post. Sometimes ya gotta go with what you know is best for you or what YOU can do. The one thing about science is that there's not many absolutes, it always changes. Like menace said, the basics (which are most of the time absolute) will get most people where they want to be, but YOU have to bust your a to go beyond that.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.
--Vince Lombardi
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." H. L. Hunt
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