Adam Schafer

So I'll use a different example because I think people can understand this, okay?

Throwing a baseball as far as you can, you got to have strong muscles.

You got to have fast muscles.

You got to, you know, stronger muscles are better when throwing a baseball far.

But if you have bad skill, you're not going to throw very far.

I'm a pretty strong guy.

I've been working out for a long time, got a little muscle mass.

I cannot throw a third of the distance that a high school baseball player could throw who's skinny, who I outweigh by, you know, 80 pounds because he's got the skill of throwing the ball.

Lifting is a lot of that is a skill.

Now, yes, muscles are involved and bigger muscles contract harder, but...

But the way your muscles work together, the way that they contract together and stabilize and how the central nervous system organizes everything is what gives you that strength.

And practicing fewer exercises and movements allows you to really hone in and develop that skill of the lift.

And doing short daily workouts gets rid of all the fluff.

When you're looking at it and you're going, okay, what can I cut off?

What can I cut away?

You're left with the ones that are really important.

Then when you just practice those, and there's more that goes to this, by the way, suddenly you get really good at those lifts that you're trying to practice.

So strength is strongly correlated to muscle size.

In other words, the stronger you get,

tends to point to building more muscle.