I've a couple of posts in draft that I will get up soon - an update / reflection on Dry January and some thoughts on the scheduling benefits of short workouts if your life is busy. Before that though, I am pointing to something else. However, I wanted to highlight something that is coming this weekend that I've been involved in. Amber Rogers (Gokaleo and author of Taking Up Space ) has been pulling together a bundle of books from various authors with a common theme, one that I've been pushing here recently. Keep it simple, avoid the hype, be patient, be consistent and flee the gurus. I've talked before about how we get obsessed with pushing for more and more, when enough is OK. I've given my view that so much of the health and fitness internet world is more like a gnostic religion than something that will benefit your life. There are other voices out there saying similar things and I'll be pointing to a bundle of books later this week ...
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The point was that there are those that criticise HIT saying it doesn't create strength or fitness. I was purely demonstrating that this HIT guy found pistols relatively straightforward with little practice.
All you seem to do is come here and criticise. What is that about?
Sure the HIT guy was impressive. He looks really skinny, so the fact that he can do a few pistols is salutary. It's good to see that there are more ways to skin a cat than just concentrating solely on pistols alone.
fair enough....
Patrick does look a bit thin on camera, but in person his physique is quite impressive (very strong), and he is very lean. Dont let the camera fool you! =)
-Anthony
Fair enough, I didn't think the perception was HIT didn't get you strong, rather it was too dogmatic.
Reading through my comments, only about half of them have been particularly critical.
The slate article I ripped up was just bad journalism and a lack of basic reading ability...
I'll try to be more positive =D
Single leg squats have a large skill and flexibility element but this can be overcome in little time with practise and no other strength training involved - except of course the body weight training needed to do single leg squats.
I'm really not sure that the benefits are of this exercise - I can see lots of benefits of other single leg exercises but I struggle with this one.
The dude looks too skinny for my goals, therefore is there any relevance in what he is doing ?
in a word - yes. Of course there is relevance.
The way someone looks doesn't affect the validity of what they are saying. The guy with small calves may well know a damn sight more than you about a lot of things - including how to get stringer. In many ways I probably know more about training than some competitive bodybuilders but without (a) their genes and (b) their drugs I will always be smaller than them.
Realise that some "skinny" guys actually know a lot.