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Adam Schafer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

There's also this, that daily practice is better for developing skills than less frequent type practice.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

So in other words, practicing some every day will get you better at the skill of strength.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

than doing, let's say, a lot a few days a week, okay?

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

So they're both good, but the daily version of practice has been shown in the data and experience to build more strength, which brings us to the next point, which is when it comes to building strength, fatigue is the enemy, okay?

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

So if strength is a skill, then what that means is you need to practice the skill well.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

Do you know what destroys your skill or your technique is fatigue?

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

So, again, think of the guy throwing the baseball.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

And I like to use that because I think people understand how much of a skill that is.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

If you get really tired, you just throw balls until you're really tired, your skill's out the window.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

Yes, you're weaker.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

You're not generating as much force, but your skill's also.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

We can see this.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

Right, right.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

So instead of doing 15 sets of bench press on Monday, well, you know, halfway through,

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

Your practice is crap.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

You're practicing terrible skill because you're fatigued.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

What if instead of doing 15 sets on Monday, you did two or three sets every day?

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

Now there's no more fatigue, and what you're practicing is perfect skill, and this builds โ€“

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

the skill of strength.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2685: Hit PRs Doing Less & Lifting Smarter

It is.