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The Value Of Strength

9/19/2015

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I've been seeing people working hard at getting specific Strength feats, whether it'd be Planches, Levers or various Handstands, as well as various maneuvers between those strength skills. Some people been employing these in order to get an advantage for their already established field of practice, while others try to achieve these road block in and of themselves. 

Strength is a task specific/ alignment specific quality.

There are many different strength factors such as Endurance Strength, Flexibility Strength, Speed Strength and others.
Many people would say Strength is the most important factor in adaptability for new movements and sports, and for success within certain fields. Truth is that coordination is also just as an important factor for the ability to adapt well to new movement patterns and types, and both should be directly addressed for general adaptability. 

Some patterns of strength will translate to other activities better then others. For the purpose of some activities, strength in relation to body mass (Relative Strength) will be the determining factor. For other sports it will be maximal strength, or the ability to produce strength in regardless of body mass. 

Another big factor is the pattern of muscle recruitment, some body alignments within certain over all planning, will give the types of strength that could translate easier to many activities, where other types of strength might have a more narrow application. The best type of strength development for conditioning purposes would be the type that makes the closest mimic to the aplication of it.

The progress I've been seeing  is still at an early phase and there is still lots of things to learn, I been seeing a growing awareness for balance in the practice in order to avoid imbalances that lead to injuries. That is a blessed direction, which deserves much more work. Another thing I've been noticing is the ease with which people adopt to the new pattern, Majority of people are all looking to acquire the same strength skills as road blocks, while there are so many other great skills to acquire that are worth the while (if you look at gymnastics where we take many of these strength skills, not everybody is a rings specialist). For example, look at the Thomas flares from Gymnastics, I have hardly seen fitness people working on that one, many people would like to develop great straight arm strength and are approaching the gymnastics rings for it. But how about static explosive strength under full body load, landing on the elbows for the intensity you only get with the Thomas Flares. 

It is a big picture, there is a lot to be able to think with it, everything is individual, and there is much more material to explore then what we have seen so far. 

We live in an exciting era, where we get to see where the fitness industry is being lead to. It has a gynormous potential to effect people's approach to training, and it's place in our lives. To my view it should be the answer for the "boxed" (as in a box) lifestyles many of us are living, and not just another "boxed" necessity.

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Acquiring the right tastes

9/10/2015

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Babies acquire the taste of the first foods introduced to them, it is a learning curve, as they grow we keep introducing new foods to them, some they like and some they don't, only to discover later that they do like them. Those foods they didn't like at first, we call acquired taste.

Acquiring tastes is something we do throughout our entire life, whether cultivating habits, acquiring tastes for foods, drinks, relationships, movement patterns or concepts, and many other things.

It usually starts with something we could do without, we have no need for it and we ask ourselves, should we pick that up? In case we decided to go for it and succeed, it can become part of our daily routine, the way we look at life and the way we conceive of ourselves, to a point where we might not be able to imagine life without it.

People grow in different ways and directions, everyone has his own interest, some people think ahead and plan how they would like to become, and pick up their habits according to that road map, other might pick up habits at random, or following certain people and adopting their choices.

Sometimes we pick up a habit, and later down the road we realize that this habit didn't take us in the direction we wanted initially to go, the habit was a mistake, but now we have an attachment to this habit and sometimes it's hard to give those habits up, even when we know it is working against us.

Some people have different awareness in this regard, some can isolate the wrong pattern and work out a way to grow out of it, while others might seek some guidance, someone who can help them through the growing pains. Some people develop greater attachment to those old ways, many times greater attachment then they have for their original purpose. When that happens they end up developing in the wrong direction, feeling unfulfilled.

As someone who helps people cultivate new ways, it isn't always easy to understand someone's road, and put him back on it, or help them develop and acquire new ways, many times people resist those new ways, only to like them later, and understand what they have prevented from themselves.

Many times it takes lots of patience, repetition, and the building of trust, to get someone to develop these new patterns. And when thinking about it, it is good for these patterns to be examined in that way, as it could be a very long term commitment.

It is something we all do, but it's good to think about it sometimes.


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