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Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:47 pm
by 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

Re: Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:16 pm
by 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!

Re: Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:50 am
by Barkadion
Adski wrote: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..

Re: Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:37 am
by Adski
Barkadion wrote:
Adski wrote: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.

Re: Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 1:02 pm
by Barkadion
And here they give all numbers and ratios based on different lifts:

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

Re: Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:05 pm
by Adski
That’s an interesting way of looking at things, for the most part it looks pretty accurate.

Re: Death to Strength and Conditioning Standards

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 2:40 pm
by Barkadion