blut wump
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I know what you mean: as one slims down then moving around becomes easier. I remember thinking about this a while back, though, and I wasn't convinced that it was a good way to look at fitness.
I've seen 'fat' guys at the gym who would struggle with a 100-yard sprint. Nevertheless, they can pick up a bar and do a max set of squats and then do it again a couple of minutes later. Shortly afterwards, they're maxing out for reps on bench and then again on deads. This I see as fitness.
Usually, when we're talking about the fitness to get someone through a hard workout session like that we refer to it as conditioning or GPP. I can't see any good reason to think of it as an inferior type of fitness to the ability to do a hundred pushups, just as I wouldn't think of a marathon runner as unfit due to being unable to squat heavy weight.
If you take the typical guy who tends to be thought of as fit and compare him with someone who is like the above 'fat' gymrat and then have them do an equal workload in the gym how do readers think they'd compare. Obviously, the workload would need to be pitched such that they could each do it but you'd have them doing the same lifts at the same weights with same rest times.
I was really just saying that the idea of 'fit' has more facets than being able to move around an ever-decreasing bodyweight with ever-increasing ease. Equally, it's hard to balance ther concept of 'strong' with simple muscular fitness and an ability to recover from an effort.
I've seen 'fat' guys at the gym who would struggle with a 100-yard sprint. Nevertheless, they can pick up a bar and do a max set of squats and then do it again a couple of minutes later. Shortly afterwards, they're maxing out for reps on bench and then again on deads. This I see as fitness.
Usually, when we're talking about the fitness to get someone through a hard workout session like that we refer to it as conditioning or GPP. I can't see any good reason to think of it as an inferior type of fitness to the ability to do a hundred pushups, just as I wouldn't think of a marathon runner as unfit due to being unable to squat heavy weight.
If you take the typical guy who tends to be thought of as fit and compare him with someone who is like the above 'fat' gymrat and then have them do an equal workload in the gym how do readers think they'd compare. Obviously, the workload would need to be pitched such that they could each do it but you'd have them doing the same lifts at the same weights with same rest times.
I was really just saying that the idea of 'fit' has more facets than being able to move around an ever-decreasing bodyweight with ever-increasing ease. Equally, it's hard to balance ther concept of 'strong' with simple muscular fitness and an ability to recover from an effort.