Form Strength is a Skill?

[Baby Hanma]

I do the Hepburn Method. It kicks ass. Its a safe and surefire way to build strength.

Nobody knows more about Doug's system better than Baby Hanma.

What the hell. Are you people purposely annoying me or something?

Stop talking about the legendary Canadian and just make a thread of AMA with me as the answerer of all the Hepburn system questions. I've been doing his stuff for over two years on top of memorizing several pages of his book.

 

[maximus__]

The reason some people don't want to acknowledge their genetic advantages is because they want to believe it was their hard work that got them where they are. It is similar to people who downplay AAS in their ability to achieve their size, strength and performance goals.

Whether hard work can overcome genetic disadvantages depends on many factors. How big is the athletic gap?

AAS can work wonders but no amount of steroids will ever achieve what someone with excellent genetics could achieve.

Some people have more fast or slow twitch fibers. Some people have perfect limb and torso size for certain exercises/sports. Some people have advantages with skill acquisition and reaction times(innate neutral advantages--there's a video of a Nascar driver demonstrating his elite reaction time). Some people have better muscle insertions. etc.

I think genetic advantage is definitely important, but I have seen people out work absolute monsters both in the gym and on the training mats.

The best of the best are genetically gifted and out work the competition. The next step down can be a mix of both IMO.

 

[DEVILsSON]

I think genetic advantage is definitely important, but I have seen people out work absolute monsters both in the gym and on the training mats.

The best of the best are genetically gifted and out work the competition. The next step down can be a mix of both IMO.

No doubt that happens as well. It is usually described as 'all else equal'.

I have seen incredibly gifted people waste their potential and I've seen people with moderate abilities achieve quite a bit through sheer hard work.

 

[AtlSteel]

Pavel Tsatsouline believes strength is a skill that can be learned like anything else. He says the "grease the groove" technique works equally well for learning a new language or the piano or strength on a specific exercise - bench press, squat, pullups, whatever. Interesting.

 

[ROcknrollracing]

Improving technique is definitely a skill in a given lift. I personally would rather be "dummy" strong.

 

[Baby Hanma]

Improving technique is definitely a skill in a given lift. I personally would rather be "dummy" strong.

Doug Hepburn's and Paul Anderson's mentality. Thats why I follow them.