billswift comments on Weight training - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 28 August 2011 05:12:28AM -2 points [-]

It is well established that you cannot really build endurance and strength at the same time. But as I wrote, it depends on what you want to achieve. I am reasonably, but not especially, strong, but when working at landscaping when I was younger I could work people who were substantially stronger than me into the ground. And endurance is more correlated with health than is strength, except for some increase in resistance to injury with increasing strength.

Comment author: wedrifid 28 August 2011 05:49:00AM *  2 points [-]

It is well established that you cannot really build endurance and strength at the same time.

WTF? No it isn't. It's hard to build strength without building endurance. Sure, strength training isn't optimal for endurance building but it's far from terrible. (Although I suppose it holds for a really stretched definition of 'really'.)