Less is more.
“Bragging about cramming as much as you can into a fixed-time workout is like bragging about taking more medicine than you need to and not having “too bad” of side effects.
You don’t get any points for doing the most.
You only get points for doing the best.
Less is more.”
Strength Coach Twitter is a wild place.
If you’re in the industry, you know what it is.
If you’re not in the industry, basically what it is, is a bunch of strength coaches flexing their virtual muscles, sharing how their methods are superior, tweeting information in an echo chamber trying to get likes and retweets to boost their egos.
“You should NEVER do this!”
“Athletes drink water and eat!”
Nothing like living in absolutes and sharing common knowledge, Coach Einstein.
But one of the most comedic elements of strength coach Twitter is how coaches love to brag about how much they can get done in a fixed time period.
Basically it goes something like this:
“At my school, I have 50 kids in each class with 34 minutes of time and crummy equipment, but we STILL get <insert 12 exercises they fly through> in county fair style circuit fashion.”
It’s like they think there is some reward for doing the most.
They wear their ability to blow the whistle every minute on the minute, to program kids robotically to do as they say.
Nothing like developing discipline and accountability like forcing it down their throats!
But there is a major problem.
You see the objective in the weight room is to build strength, speed, and power.
In order to develop strength, speed, and power, it’s not about how MUCH gets accomplished, but how well you accomplish what you do.
Do you really think by the time they unrack the bar, heavily out of breath as they’re flying through the 3rd superset, they are in an optimal state to display maximal strength?
Of course they’re not.
It’d be like telling the kids to skim through 50 pages of material in 10 minutes and then expect them to have a good grasp on it.
If you really cared about strength and performance you’d focus on maximizing quality with minimal effective dosages.
You’d have them resting as optimally as possible in between sets.
You wouldn’t care about “outdoing” your colleagues spreadsheets on twitter.
Contrary to popular belief, with youth athletes in the weight room (and just about everywhere else):
LESS IS MORE.
Serve them, even at the expense of a few retweets.
