From the Blog of Brett Jones at appliedstrength.com

An Excellent post below by Dragondoor.coms Master RKC. Read and digest.


Contradictions???And Situational Correctness...Oh yeah - and some training...Couple of items from the dragondoor.com forum that have caught my attention and felt I would comment on a bit here -ContradictionsPeople get very confused and confounded when seemingly contradictory information gets put out there. Situational correctness has been lost on most people.One of the classics for the forum is the difference between the low rep strength focus of Pavel's Power to the People and the higher rep conditioning focus of Kettlebell training. Different goals mean different techniques and applications. You don't go to a tax lawyer for a murder defense but you still need to have access to both the tax and defense professionals.People seem to forget this when they are looking for an answer or a philosophy to follow.They want one answer for everything and it just doesn't exist.There is no contradiction between the High Tension Techniques and Hardstyle kettlbell training and the Relaxation techniques and drills of Pavel's Fast and Loose. They are both skills to be learned and practiced and applied.So get busy learning them and applying them!Situational Correctness...Since Pavel's Power to the People book and DVD the idea of performing a limited numer of exercises on a consistent basis without changing exercises every 4 weeks to avoid the dreaded "adaptation" people continue to have questions as to whether it will work on not.Well - it does work but this is another one of those "contradiction" areas where the fervor over having ONE answer leads to confusion.In Marty Gallagher's new book The Purposeful Primitive he details the training of several Iron Giants and instead of getting mired in the differences between them he draws correlations between the similarities and USES the differences to target certain goals or even a restricted number of training days a week. Imagine that!! Finding similarities and using the differences - revolutionary!!There are powerlifters who train on the Big 3 lifts exclusively and there are those that train almost everything but the Big 3 and rotate lifts constantly - who is right and who is wrong???Neither is wrong and both are wrong - or - Both are correct and both are wrong!It depends on the individual situation - goals, recovery ability, number of available training days per week, training experience, Injury and medical history, nutrition, individual likes and dislikes, etc.... Apply the correct tool/technique to fit the situation! Again - Situational CorrectnessFor me - simplicity works and I find I can adjust that simplicity to fit most of my clients needs and goals. If you haven't tried it. Try it. Just press and deadlift for the next 6 months or so...