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| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sun, 02 Apr 2023 10:30:03 -0600 |
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"Of course this is only a +training adjunct", he says, "and the athletes will still have to practice and perfect their specific +sport skills just as before. But if they add this discipline to their training they will become faster, +stronger, and more enduring. Its only drawback is that it's hard work, and unfortunately there's +only anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that it works." + +<p>Your first reaction would almost certainly be one of complete disbelief, but, restraining your +negative impulses you inquire as to the nature of this marvelous new method. The stranger +replies "It's called progressive weight training". Now your disbelief turns to derision, because +back then everyone "knew" that weight training caused athletes to become "muscle bound" and +less, not more competent. So you dismiss him as a slightly deranged fanatic, more suited to +residence in a "rubber room" than someone to be taken seriously. + +<p>Now quickly fast forward a half century to the present, and we find that everything that the +mysterious stranger predicted about the ability of the unusual new training method to improve +athletic performance has proven abundantly true. Today all athletes male or female, young or old, +and whether engaged in football, swimming, tennis, or any other sport now routinely make +progressive weight training an integral part of their regimen, and performances have soared to +previously unimagined levels as a result. + +<p>A miracle? A lucky coincidence? Hardly, but you must understand the simple underlying +principle to appreciate why the method works. The specific requirements of every sport, even +such multi-disciplinary events as the decathlon, require that the athletes who participate in it +repetitively practice a specific, limited series of movements. This inevitably results in overuse of +some muscle groups while underusing others, producing an unbalanced and sub-optimal physical +development. Progressive weight training <em>complements</em> each athlete's specific sport training by +filling in those gaps to produce a much more balanced development which is not only stronger +and more versatile, but also more enduring and less injury prone. In addition, it simultaneously +provides a graded method for progressively increasing the resistance applied, thereby increasing +the athlete's strength and ability with maximum efficiency. + +<p>Now imagine that it's still the present but instead of an athletic coach you're a parent and/or +educator, and this time the mysterious stranger approaches you with an even more outrageous +proposal. He claims to have discovered <em>a near magical extra-curricular activity that will +improve the thinking ability and academic performance of even marginal students</em>. Just as was +true of progressive weight training, <em>this new activity won't replace the need to study and master +the regular academic subjects, but it will make those who habitually employ it better and more +willing students</em>. Best of all, it isn't hard work but pure FUN! + +<p>Once again, with great effort you suppress your disbelief and enquire as to the nature of this +almost magical paragon of pedagogical tools, and the stranger replies "It's the 4000 year old +Oriental strategic board game called Wei Ch'i in China, Baduk in Korea, and GO in Japan and +the rest of the world." Your skepticism in response to this information is even greater than +before, but you're understandably more cautious about rushing to a possibly erroneous judgement +given the overwhelming success of weight training in athletics, so you ask for some proof that +the new method works. Once again, the stranger informs you that there are no controlled +experiments which conclusively demonstrate GO's efficacy in improving student performance, +but there is abundant and <a href="JapEd.html"><Font Color="#0033FF">highly persuasive +anecdotal evidence in Japan.</Font></a> + +<p><a href="JapEd.html"><Font Color="#0033FF"><strong>Continue</strong></Font></a> + +<p>Click Here To Return To<a href="index.html"><Font Color="#0033FF"><strong> Milt's Go +Page</strong></Font></a> + +<p><hr> + +<br wp="br1"><br wp="br2"> +</body> + +<!-- Mirrored from users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/Legend.html by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2014], Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:49:33 GMT --> +</html>