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Old 07-20-2008, 10:43 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Sounds great.

The board press thing kinda reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend who is an accomplished lifter. Especially with olympic lifting as opposed to me.

I told him how I really liked Anderson squats and feel that they really develop exposivity under the bar...rather back or front squats. You can 'feel' the need for the fast and total core reaction.

He asked what Anderson squats were and once I explained it he asked, in my opinion what was the difference between that and box squats. I gave him a short explanation of what the difference was as I percieved it but I wasn't going to go into a long detailed thing. From my viewpoint...they work becasue they work. And I find them fun.

I could tell that he was unconvinced about the benefits of an Anderson squat versus a box squat but I wasn't going to take on a mission of convincing him. I had done both extensively and he had only tried box squats from among to two. In his mind there was all ready a preconcieved expectation about them. I.E. that they are too similar to box squats to be of further benefit. Until he tries them for himself and discovers their value or lack of it for himself there is no use of me trying to sell them to him. He can trust my experience of knowing a good thing when I see it and try it out...or not. But you also have to learn how much of a good thing is good and when too much is counter productive.

When it comes to books and trainers, I like someone who recognises that one of the worse things you can do to trainees is create limiting assumptions and expectations about things. Unless you consider something dangerous or downright stupid and you can explain exactly why, it is damaging to the training mindset to create that sort of environment.

The more preconceptions you foster about this or that the more you will adopt that mode of thinking. Instead of looking for possibilities you look for impossibilities. Nothing more negative or profoundly limiting than that.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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