Dr. Layne Norton

Right.

So same thing for me.

Now, when it comes to strength.

The purest expression of strength is force, right?

You have to produce force and that's mass times acceleration.

Actually, mass times acceleration squared, I think.

Physics people, please check me on that one.

But there's a mass component and there's a speed component to it.

So...

You can move a given load with the same force as you move a heavy load.

You'll just move it faster, right?

So now if it's a heavy load, you can apply the same force, but it's going to move slower, right?

So then we call this the strength velocity curve.

So one of the things that my coach, Zach Robinson, really kind of pioneered talking about, and he came out of Mike Zordos' lab at FAU, was he said –

You know, a lot of power lifters or people who are trying to build strength train with a lot of fatigue.

You know, they're training very close to failure.

You know, they're doing heavy sets.

And that is one thing that's very important for strength.

If you want to get better at a one rep max, you have to be doing sets with, you know, heavy singles, doubles, triples, because that is a specific skill set.

You need that to one, learn how to grind hard reps and to just feel what heavy weight feels like and how to manage that under stress.