I found a great article at SBCoaches College by John Pallof that provides a lot of good learning about some of the stuff I was talking about in my post's here.
http://www.sbcoachescollege.com/arti...LearningI.html
This however, I don't get:
http://www.sbcoachescollege.com/arti...kRippetoe.html
Coach Boyle states in his article that he find's Rippetoe's support of Crossfit incongruous. So do I. It's hypocritical and contrary to many things Rip has said. But I find Coach Boyle's support of Rippetoe "incongrous". It doesn't really sound like he knows that much about him, but still...
Yeah, simple linear progression is great for a beginner. Wow. It takes GREAT strength coach to come up with that gem. Yayada. There is much more to it than that. Boyle would never advocate ONE cookie cutter for all beginners. Especially for kids. Boyle would also be willing to discuss and DEFEND his views on anything not just shout people down or worse, censor them out unless they were humbly asking for help from the great man.
Linear progression is great. Progressing and loading too quickly for the sake of fast progression is not. After all "progression" is subjective. For some people progression is lifting a heavier bar. For others it is actually getting better and stronger.
A huge problem right now is that people think that good alignment, good movement, protection from injury, etc. is just built in to a handful of exercises like squats and deads.
I would never preach variety for variety's sake but Rip disdains ALL variety right off the batt. Coach Boyle is a big advocate of single leg movements, Rip says they are "worthless" and give a completely ignorant reason why.
I'm afraid Boyle has just embarrased himself with this and it's too bad because he is a great coach and one of my main resources.