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Adam Schafer

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

And we do a lot.

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

It's because it's a means to an end, I think.

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

We do this to other forms of exercise.

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

Running is my favorite example.

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

The reason why running is the highest rate of injury of all forms of exercise, even though humans evolved or were made, depending on what you believe, to run, were actually made to run really, really well.

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

The reason why there's so many injuries is nobody respects running as a skill.

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

Everybody goes and runs until they're tired.

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

And this is what happened with strength training.

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

We look at strength training, and we don't look at it as skill.

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

We look at it as body parts, chest, back, shoulders, arms.

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

That's what I'm working right now.

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

Now, yes, those body parts are being worked, and they'll grow when they're corresponded to the exercise that you're training.

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

But if you want to really get the gains, if you want to build strength and get the muscle growth that comes from it, look at them as movements.

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

And when you're practicing good movement, daily practice, short practice, the right dose without fatigue is what's going to produce the best gains.

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

And this is why, again, this is why people are reporting, oh my gosh, I can't believe how strong I'm getting doing what feels like so little.

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

Which along those lines, your best bet is to build your calorie burning machinery, which is muscle.

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

because that's your best bet.

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

How would you like to burn more calories all the time rather than just when you're moving or exercising?

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

This is why building muscle is such a great strategy for fat loss.

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

It's because it moves you in that direction.