How to combine strength, flexibility and skill training.
Training goals, flexibility levels, strength levels, skill levels, lifestyle factors, and more all play a role in program design. This is why it’s best to have an individual design program tailored to you.
There is no one-size-fits-all best approach to program design. Yes, we can make progress following a general program, but it’ll never be as effective as a tailored approach.
Personally, I train four days a week, combining flexibility, strength, and skill into every session, leaving me with three full rest days.
However, this approach may not work for everyone.
On the learning process
A painting at the National Gallery: farmers working in a field, they are busy reaping the wheat and don't notice a passing comet.
A picnic with friends: no-one cares about the guy in the distance holding a perfect one-arm handstand. "Anyone can do that", they cut short dipping their breadsticks into the hummus.
An afternoon in the gym: an invisible man doing 25kg strict bar muscle-ups.
These scenes got me thinking about the causes of indifference. We are all very busy with our own lives, we need to rush and accomplish, be focused on the task at hand, and yet I have the impression that our blindness might not depend on an exaggeration of focus but on blurred vision. We are willing to pay to see performances but can't stop and appreciate performance when it's in front of us, not even in a context (like in the last example) where we ourselves are working to improve. Missing an extra-ordinary event can happen: it could definitely happen in the 16th century when no previous notice was available to the public. Art doesn't need to be understood to be appreciated: to say it with Adorno, the German philosopher, it is just participated.