How You Measure Strength Matters: Couch+1: And Richard Adams On Control

For every strength you have, there are at least a dozen weaknesses.

When you’re young, you think everyone who’s stronger than you is a cheater and everyone who’s weaker isn’t trying.

Then you grow up and realize your criteria for strength isn’t broken — you are.

For every strength you have, there are at least a dozen weaknesses. For every weakness you spot in someone else, there are at least a dozen ways they could better you in an instant. You’re just too blind, judgmental, and selfish to see.

How do you measure strength? It’s an important question; it better have many data points.

If strength is only the weight in the barbell, what happens when you’re injured? What happens when you stop setting records? What happens in thirty years?

Same goes for diet.

If you suck at sticking to a meal plan now, so what. It doesn’t mean it will always be that way or that meal plans…