[quote]kakno wrote:
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
This is maddening.
The reason it matters is because questioning, analyzing, researching and testing are how we continue to make advancements that allow for bigger stronger faster athletes and average joes. If you are to stupid to realize that without people asking why is that? on a regular basis, we would all still be using nautilus machines, or doing incline, flat and decline benches every week.
The people that ask why? are those who truly want to grow physically and mentally, and also the people whose minds and bodies will still be there long after the meatheads have bowed out to live out life on the couch drinking MGD. Stop trying to be the full of shit wannabe tough guy that tries to act like anything even remotely intellectual diminishes from his manliness
i.e. the dl should not have a shrug at the top, and the scapular retraction should be there the whole lift. The back acts as stabilizers not pullers in the DL. Stabilizing is their main function anyways, which is my theory as to why backs respond so well to them.[/quote]
Assigning labels isn’t intellectual.
I don’t give a fuck if Thibs thinks the deadlift is a press. I know that deadlifts will make me sore in my hamstrings, spinal erectors and lats and I know that I’ll be weaker if I deadlift with sore quads. I’ll also become pretty “mentally drained”.
If I only thought: “Deads is lower body pressing, I’ll put that between upper body pressing and upper body pulling”, my planning wouldn’t take the above into consideration and I’d either be deadlifting with a sore upper back or rowing with sore spinal erectors, lats and hamstrings.
Labeling them didn’t help at all. I had to actually train and think to form a good plan.[/quote]
I agree with your phil in regards to training. And while labeling things itself is not that important, it is one of the tools we use to store and translate new information. He feels like he is redefining how we look at training, which means that some of the terms we use in relation to training might need to be redefined. Do we really need to know that he thinks sled pulls are so effecrtrive due to the lack of an eccentric phase, or maaybe that he is laying out his methods to not only be followed, but also learned and spread.
I dont really think it’s that important to label, to learn and grow is. And that will always include the former.
The comment was more towards morons who felt the need to chip in with why it doesnt matter instead of keeping their mouth shut. Fake attempts at being macho irritate me, especially online