Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

[Barkadion]

Interesting article by Lee Boyce...

"If you're not skeletally built for lifting, you're going to have more frustration reaching generic lifting standards. No strength standard has taken into consideration the anthropometry of the individual, and it's time someone called that out."

and

"A poorly trained and misguided judge/trainer would say that one lifter has much better conditioning than the other, when in truth, each person could be just as well conditioned as the other in a relative sense."

https://www.t-nation.com/training/death ... -standards

[Adski]

Great read. Really enjoyed the end of it. It reminded me of a post I saw a while back (pretty sure it was on Ross’s page) where someone was complaining that they were still on the same weights they were using years ago to which someone replied to how great that was that they were able to maintain a good which will carry on into later life. I believe it also talked about enjoying the process more than chasing feats or at least enjoying the process while chasing feats instead of being frustrated with not being where one would like to be already.

And long femurs.....yep I’m hearing that Haha!

[Barkadion]

enjoying the process more than chasing feats or at least enjoying the process while chasing feats instead of being frustrated with not being where one would like to be already!

In a way... we are where we’d like to be already
Always..

[Adski]

enjoying the process more than chasing feats or at least enjoying the process while chasing feats instead of being frustrated with not being where one would like to be already!

In a way... we are where we’d like to be already
Always..

True. If we’re on the same page here and I think we are, true.

[Barkadion]

And here they give all numbers and ratios based on different lifts:

https://www.t-nation.com/training/how-m ... -lift-wimp

[Adski]

That’s an interesting way of looking at things, for the most part it looks pretty accurate.

[Barkadion]

Athletic Standards from JW:

https://biotest.t-nation.com/articles/f ... to-athlete