Strength Training Beyond The Conventional
Physical Strength For The Game Of Life
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Picture an arrow that comes close to hitting the margin of a bull's-eye. It was a good shot but failed to hit the mark. The same can be said for strength training methods that fail to hit the mark. They may produce good results, but not the best results. Your overall approach to strength training is largely determined by the way you think. Your personal beliefs about how strength training causes your muscles to become stronger will direct the development of your strength training methods toward that end. The belief that the healing of muscle damage causes increases in muscular strength is the underlying premise behind the conventional approach to strength training. In other words, the most commonly accepted strength training premise today, the damage premise, is the one we adhered to in 1953. Although we have learned a lot since then, the vast majority of strength coaches and trainers continue to go in that same direction. They may be getting good results, but they cannot get the best results. The damage premise has turned out to be one of the most limiting factors in strength training. In order for you to achieve the best possible results from your workouts, you must go beyond the conventional way of thinking. Your beliefs will determine the way you think, and when it comes to strength training, what you believe about the way your muscles become stronger will foster the characteristics of your methods and techniques. At the heart of post-conventional strength training is the premise that muscles become stronger through the direct stimulation of resistance, not through the healing of muscle damage. This is not only a correction of the damage premise, it is the foundation for a more productive approach to strength training.
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“Jim has distilled over fifty years of strength training experience into a workout program that is supported by the latest research in muscle physiology. I am confident the post-conventional method will allow anyone to effectively achieve their physical strength goals, and I am excited to incorporate PC techniques into my own training program.”
—John J. McCarthy, PHD, University of Kentucky Center for Muscle Biology
About the Author
Author Jim Christian explores the social and theoretical progress of strength training from the 1950s and lays the foundation for the development of training methods that go beyond the conventional way of thinking. While coaching high school football in the mid-1970s, his interest in developing an ideal strength program for athletes led him to a small private fitness center where his conventional beliefs about strength training were shattered. It was the start of an educational journey toward a new and better way of strength training, which he later referred to as post-conventional. Commonly believed strength training myths are addressed, and the conventional explanation of how strength training causes muscles to become stronger is scientifically challenged. An emphasis is placed upon the improvement of health, fitness, and lifestyle through the benefits of strength training. A spiritual connection, including the gospel of Christ, is also presented. Now seventy-seven, Jim is currently a part-time, certified personal trainer in Peachtree City, Georgia. Over the last thirty-five years, his list of trainees has included business men and women, beauty contestants, seniors, and top high school, college, amateur, and professional athletes.