That's why I hate aphorisms like that that attempt to bring things down to reduce things down to a single point of simplicity, Riddick.

It's similar to the "it's 80% nutrition" BS.

Einstein said something like "things should be made as simple as possible but no simpler!" LOL

It is possible to maintain quality while still training for a specific purpose and you said it perfectly.

Correct form has as much to do with the acitivity and it's purpose. Most people when they talk about "form" are looking at it as if you can reduce it to one static idea of perfection.

Good form for a clean is different than good form for a deadlift (despite what some people seem to think).

Good form for jerk would be bad form for a military press.


I forgot to mention above that although contraction or contractibilty coincides with a muscles ability to produce tension contraction means a muscle is shortening and tension developed in a muscle NEED NOT result in shortening.

For the most part STRETCHED muscles develop the most tension and hence have the most pulling power. The shorter a muscle gets the less it's ability to contract.

Generally speaking, the force generating capability is at it's greatest when it's at it's resting length and when that length increases or decrease beyond that the force potential decreases.

However, the elastic component of muscles comes into play so that force generation increase when there is a bit of a stretch. It's somewhere between 120% to 130% of resting length. Beyond that and the muscle would not be able to contract much at all so that any added tension from the stretch wouldn't matter.

Remember, tension is pull. A muscle is not "strongest" at mid-contraction by any stretch of the imagination. It is simply that the torque developed changes as a result of the line of action of force from the center of rotation of the joint.

If you could keep the SAME tension throughout, which you can't, the resultant torque would be freaky.

As it stands the muscles can generate more tension, and thus more pull, at greater lengths but the resultant torque is depedent on the angles and not just the muscle tension.

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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.