Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Relative Strength

A friend of mine recently expressed some interest in wanting to start training in the Paper Street Gym (My Garage). He was reluctant to start without first getting some supplement that he claimed would, "blow him up".

This got me thinking. I knew that the experts at CrossFit and Gym Jones didn't base the progress of fitness on how fast you could get "blown up". In fact they don't seem to put much stock into bulk at all.

In Mark Twight's essay on Relative Strength he does a great job of explaining the concept.

READ HERE

2 comments:

Clint said...

Quite possibly my favorite read from the knowledge section.

Bruce said...

It's a good one.