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.
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