Adam Schafer

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, you're weaker.

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

We can see this.

Right, right.

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

Your practice is crap.

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

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

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

the skill of strength.

It is.

And we do a lot.

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

We do this to other forms of exercise.

Running is my favorite example.