Welcome back to Get Fit Guy, Coach Kevin Don here with episode 642.

This week I wanted to take some time to objectively clarify what strength training is.

Well, as much as possible because I've recently been reflecting upon Descartes and the notion that

we cannot be sure anything exists outside of our own mind. So therefore, objectivity may be

impossible and subjectivity inevitable since my mind is everything. Existential crises aside, it becomes apparent

quite quickly when one takes a stroll down Google Avenue browsing for strength programs that

strength could be anything from a 500 pound deadlift to lifting a pint glass to your lips

for reps. So let's make sure we're all on the same page,

so I stop getting emails saying that you play golf for strength training. I always like to look at

questions like an onion. Not that I have any great passion for onion-based imagery, but everything

has layers. You have to peel them all away to get to the first

principle. That is a piece of information that cannot be broken down any further. We have to be

reductionist. At one point in time, elements were elemental. But we now know that elements like

gold, hydrogen and adamantium, or wait, that one's fictional,

are made up of atoms. atoms are made up of protons and neutrons, and those in turn are made up of

quarks. Maybe at some point further out in the far, far away, quarks and glue-ons will be even further reduced.

Everything we do in the gym can be reduced down to a first principle, and this includes strength.

There are different types of strength, like isometric sparrant, speed strength and absolute strength.

And they all have something in common, and That is that they create force against a resistor.

In some cases, the floor or the wall may be the resistor, other times a kettlebell or a barbell,

but you're always creating force. So it should follow on from this that for strength to increase

over time, force must increase over time.

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