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Old 03-24-2009, 04:58 PM   #11 (permalink)
kuri
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Sorry for the brief hijack but since someone mentioned @fit from that article:

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Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life
reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
I get what they are after in the article but it's this kind of "broad modal domain" pseudo-scientific garbage that gets Glassman bashed (deservedly).

Sports punish the specialist huh? Name one sport where the participant doesn't benefit from training specific fitness qualities needed.
And what sort of combat is referred to? I've heard from many that have been in actual combat that testify improving your Fran time won't do jack. And no top MMAers really do @fit.

But enough of that.

Some pretty good definitions of fitness.
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