I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was taking part in "Dry January". I didn't make a big song and dance about it, but I decided to go for a calendar month or so with no alcohol. A few people have asked me about my experience, so here are a few points. Why take a break from drinking? Alcohol is an interesting topic. As a drug it is widely accepted in society, central to so much of our socialising and leisure. There seem to be lots of health benefits - so we are told - yet there are also a lot of problems in terms of health, relationships and lifestyle that come from drinking. Over a few years I'd begun to become aware and then concerned that I was drinking too much and too regularly. I am in a busy and stressful job and sometimes a glass of wine after work to relax is really helpful. But over time, one glass became two. Two glasses became ....I might as well finish the bottle. A habit got established....and was starting to get too e...
.......interesting things about fitness, strength, diet and performance.
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Now if you have developed massive strength using the tight planes of a pressing machine then perhaps what the guy above does might lead to an injury if he continued to go full tilt every session with a guy hanging off each end of his barbell. But if you have incorporated such 'awkward' weight in to your training from the outset, your body is obviously better prepared.
Another example. Last year I had to carry several tonnes of rocks around my garden to build a rockery. The rocks were big and heavy and anything but regular in shape. I *suspect* that my weekly training prepared me quite well to lift the rocks from A to B as fast as I did.
The point is that the application of strength in the REAL WORLD was in anything but a controlled and orderly fashion in the way you'd use weights in a gym.
And that is what I train for - to have the capacity to handle life's slings and arrows which I assume will fire upon me in (what is it the paleo-econs call it?)...a none Baysian distribution!
Does this answer your question?
We could put this in a paleo context of, say, wrestling to subdue live prey to get a sense of the training skill.