
The easy part is knowing what needs improving, the hard part is spending time making our weaknesses our positives.

Take a long hard look and focus on what needs to be improved, not what we most want to work on. With all this said, we should be working specific weaknesses as well as practicing and training these elements in order to improve. We cannot practice getting stronger in the back squat, but we can practice better positions and technique that will allow us to be stronger in the back squat. Incidentally, Olympic lifting is working many of these 10 components. Doing a heavy snatch with a barbell is training. Doing snatches with a PVC pipe allows us to practice and improve the nervous system. When we work technique we are practicing. The goal of each class is to offer opportunities for growth in these areas. This means that we should be spending time on both training and practice. It doesn’t have ti be high intensity, we just need to practice enough to improve. The more we practice balancing the better we will get. Think of this as repetition that changes the brain chemistry and improves performance. Practice refers to improvements in the nervous system. For example, working strength will increase capacity and likely muscle size. Training refers to a measurable organic change in the body. The other part of these 10 components is that number 1 through 4 are adaptations of training, 7 through 10 are adaptations of practice, and 5 and 6 are adaptations of both. Ego takes over and we revert to what we enjoy, which again is likely our positives. And reduce stress and improve joint flexibility and. To work, and fail, and work to get better at what we are weak. Efficiently exercise your arms, Chest, Waist, Back, Butt, thighs and strengthen the muscle. The hardest thing to do is to work the components that need work.

It makes us feel good, it looks good to others. It is always so easy to continue working the components we excel at.

When we look at these components we should be working the ones that we need work on most. What we are saying when we look at these is that we are only as fit as we are competent in these each of these 10 components. One of the models of fitness we use is the 10 Components of Fitness. As Greg Glassman says “If it cannot be measured, it cannot be valid”. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) offered a definition but it offered no measurable components. During the early days, Greg Glassman looked for a valid definition of fitness and failed to find one.
