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Thanks, that's a huge point. The real essential meat is the first two posts. Once you understand mechanical work (the balance between enough weight (intensity/%1RM) and enough work) and then the nervous system - that leads naturally right to dual factor theory and the realization that certainly we are working the muscles but this type of work is a major impact on the nervous system. And that is where the 2nd balance must be struck and leads to programing. Otherwise we'd all pound the living shit out of ourselves, heal up and do it again and again - heck Mentzer would be right and we'd just rachet up the volume to where we could recover session to session (and it would be high not low since the muscles repair relatively quickly and there isn't much damage in the consistently trained). But that doesn't work too well in practice and the nervous system is really the constraint to this type of approach.

I honestly think the first two posts are basically a good beginner block for understanding training and what exactly is going on. If people can absorb those and get them - they will be light years ahead and no doofus bodybuilding magazine or anything else can bullshit them.

This is a great thread. Thanks for posting this