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It's not that simple. If you try too much, you may end up automating the wrong thing and getting yourself further from mastery. It may take 10k hours, but if y

by juancn 3y ago

It's not that simple. If you try too much, you may end up automating the wrong thing and getting yourself further from mastery. It may take 10k hours, but if you rush it, it's possible you'll never get there. For example, when training olympic weightlifting, if you fail your third attempt, you just stop or put less weight to ensure a successful lift, otherwise you risk fixing the wrong movement. You cannot keep at it, you just get worse, rest is necessary at that point before you try again.

diracs_stache 3y ago
Weightlifting is interesting, "most" elites have really good technique (tempo, maintaining angles throughout the pull, bottom position, lockout, etc.) indicating some level of mastery from years of practice. But I think a good amount beginners and intermediates (i'd consider myself somewhere in there) let their strength hold them back, which after obtaining the requisite positioning/flexibility can be "spammed" ( i.e. run a squat program while getting touches on the classical lifts and seeing your total increase the first time you test it). I guess the strength aspect is a dependency that must be optimized as some lifters have an excess strength reserve and can't snatch/ clean n jerk what their squat numbers would indicate.
- juancn 3y ago
  Yeah, raw strength is a limiting factor for amateurs (like me). You need to put the work and that requires dedication. If I wanted to get to the next level relatively quickly I would need to start doing more specific strength training. I'm much more focused on technique at the moment, I find weightlifting training relaxing. Since it's a hobby for me, I just slowly go increasing my PRs by every once in a while (once or twice a year) slightly bumping the reference weight for training. Kind of like an aspirational PR. Once it feels and looks right across the whole range of training, I try a new PR, if successful, slightly move the target for the next time.

by juancn 3y ago

diracs_stache 3y ago

Weightlifting is interesting, "most" elites have really good technique (tempo, maintaining angles throughout the pull, bottom position, lockout, etc.) indicating some level of mastery from years of practice. But I think a good amount beginners and intermediates (i'd consider myself somewhere in there) let their strength hold them back, which after obtaining the requisite positioning/flexibility can be "spammed" ( i.e. run a squat program while getting touches on the classical lifts and seeing your total increase the first time you test it). I guess the strength aspect is a dependency that must be optimized as some lifters have an excess strength reserve and can't snatch/ clean n jerk what their squat numbers would indicate.

juancn 3y ago
Yeah, raw strength is a limiting factor for amateurs (like me). You need to put the work and that requires dedication. If I wanted to get to the next level relatively quickly I would need to start doing more specific strength training. I'm much more focused on technique at the moment, I find weightlifting training relaxing. Since it's a hobby for me, I just slowly go increasing my PRs by every once in a while (once or twice a year) slightly bumping the reference weight for training. Kind of like an aspirational PR. Once it feels and looks right across the whole range of training, I try a new PR, if successful, slightly move the target for the next time.