^^^^Oh, I know you're a skimmer. But the first chapter, imo, is the most important one from what I've seen. Read it thouroughly to set the stage for what they are talking about later on. If people really absorbed some of this then we wouldn't be looking at all these cookie cutter linear periodized new one every week programs from twenty somethings who fancy themselves experts on the Russian Periodization Model or as Siff's protoge', blah, blah, blah....

. Or someone who has read a bodybuilding book and now is an elite internet trainer with 10 whole years of experience training thousands of succesful trainees