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KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is power. By using this Simple Structured Training System to gauge your physicality, you will have in place a knowledge base that is as vital as any stock portfolio, physician’s folder, or reference manual which you can view as your blueprint for fitness, and the developing course you’ve taken toward improvement. Many people make the mistake of hit and missing their way toward fitness, based on advice or attempts at something seen in magazines rather than first-hand accounts of what got you to great shape. When you have the breadth of knowledge that these feedback tests offer, you have a bonafide plan that led you step by step from a place of a uncertain condition to a place of greater conditioning. Armed with these facts, you have something to substantiate when your will or mind come up weak, that “yes, something better is possible.”

These “Specifics” help to further clarify the type of training to pursue. By breaking these aspects into measurable, definable routines, you will be able to go from the average, everyday athlete who participates, to the one who competes at a higher level. There shouldn’t be anything average about you or your abilities. To grow is to learn, and the more you can decipher about your body and its requirements, the more you will be able to give away.

S.P.E.E.D.
S TRIDE – Footstrike cadence of applied leg force synchronized with arm cycles.
P LYOMETRICS – Contraction and extension of muscles to create force.
E XAGGERATION – Taking the stride out of its comfort zone adds versatility.
E NDURANCE – Dictated by pace and body position and the ability to hold both.
D IRECTION – Utilizing movement explosively in various planes of play.

Strength is created by adding resistance, progressively, over a full range of motion. Simply adding repetitions to movements, rather than weight, will increase the strength of the muscle. With strength comes stamina, then endurance. Endurance means staying stronger, longer. When athletes stay strong, they play their best game, for more of the game. A golfer who stays stronger plays the last 6 holes often better than the first 12. Strength is cumulative, when one area is strong and it ties to another and yet another equally strong bodypart, the result is compounded from the sum of its parts. By having a strong heart, the whole body benefits. By having a strong core, the whole body benefits. By having strong belief, faith, trust, and attitude, the whole body benefits. There is literally no end to the amount of training you can offer your mind and body. And every endeavor has a beneficial effect. Strength is a many-splendored thing.