Can You Go?: Assessments and Program Design for the Active Athlete and Everybody Else

by Dan John

Eastern European sports scientists were discovering that everyone can tense at about the same rate, but that superior athletes can relax their muscles faster. They theorized that relaxation was the secret to elite performance.

“live long and well, then drop dead.”

Pavel Tsatsouline summed up the whole diet question for athletes like this: “Meat for strength. Veggies for health.”

Brett Jones put it this way: “Absolute strength is the glass. Everything else is the liquid inside the glass. The bigger the glass, the more of everything else you can do.”