Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Training Vs Exercise

I recently finished reading Starting Strength - Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe.  It's longwinded (64 pages on how to do a squat) but it does contain some gems.  One good quote comes from Mr. Rippetoe's discussion on how training differs from exercise:


Exercise and training are two different things.  Exercise is physical activity for its own sake, a workout done for the effect it produces today, during the workout or right after you’re through.   Training is a physical activity done with a longer-term goal in mind, the constituent workout of which are specifically designed to achieve that goal.  If a program if physical activity is not designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing s a specific stress to which s specific desirable adaption can occur, you don’t get to call it training.

 Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe

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