Disciplines are very much like what weight lifters call progressive overload. The best way to gain strength is by pushing your muscles to the very edge of their current capacity, for a relatively brief time. No one can spend twelve hours a day bench-pressing hundreds of pounds, and no one should want to. But spend an hour a day, a few days a week, in that kind of focused, strenuous exertion, and you will see gains in strength that come no other way, strength that will then be available for everything else you do. The point of working out is not just to be able to complete more reps with higher
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