Missing something?..
…Got Milk? Lift a female calf from your younger years every day until you are older…by the time the cow is adult you can lift the cow. They are merely akward to handle wiith one arm or hand. If you manage it though, use the other hand to milk the cow simultaneously..
“…But, modern exercise science tells us, however, that this simply doesn’t work. If you start out benching 50 pounds, and add two pounds per week, in 10 years you will be benching over 1000 pounds. Obviously, for many reasons, this won’t work.” What reasons…not obvious to me.?.
“Isn’t this the same principle as the kung fu methods mentioned above?” Basically. And basically not.
“1) do 1 pushup today, increase by 1 each week. Sounds easy right? MAYBE after the first year you will be doing 53 pushups. I doubt by the second you will be doing 105, and definately you will have failed this method long before the third year comes to an end.” It has been said that Jhoon Rhee, may he Rest In Peace, would do a thousand push-ups a day. These might have been half way to the ground or so push-ups, even so, remarkable. And a point to say one more a day
than you did the day before, at least perhaps can work, of course to a place. One who started counting at one number taking one second to say, on the first second of January would be counting until at least the second week of October, at stopping for eight hours sleep and eating for a total of one hour a day. That seemed relevant when I started it. A baby can take weeks to months (or more or less) to say a first word. It might be weeks before the next word is spoken. They are short words, but after a certain level range of comprehension they might learn a word or so a week. This process is of developing a base level of competance(or Comprehension) then slowly adding to that base seems to be an aspect missing from what you present as the modern exercise science. Also they persist at this attempt of speaking the language (it might be automatic learning, but it gets done (like baked foods or meat on the lit open grill~)like counting to one million in ten in a half months…let the faucet drip over night into a large container. You might end-up with an over flowed container by when you wake to get up and check the container…This process is followed by many children all over the World, theoretically. From following ~ this proceedure babies who did not speak turn into people esentially fleuent in that language.They might not know all the words of that language. As in Kung-fu one might be skilled in a particular style. But they have the comprehension to learn new words or even comprehend the meaning of words they have not heard or at least not used. As in Kung-Fu one who is skilled might be able to comprhend the uses of techniques seen in a new form even though that person has not done that particular technique~ before~.
“2) run 1 mile at top speed. each week, increase by 1 mile. You won’t be running anywhere near 50 miles at the end of a year.” The thing not captured by this formula is the competancy to run a mile at top speed and not be out of breath. In the jar example, “Carry this jar around using tiger claw. Every 2nd week, add one cup of sand the the jar, when the jar is full one will achieve success.” Two weeks is allowed. This might be because The Masters or at least experts knew it could be done with persistance and enough time~ was allowed to develop~. Like the babies or the constant dripping from the faucet.
“Carry this jar around using tiger claw. Every 2nd week, add one cup of sand the the jar, when the jar is full one will achieve success.” The Chinese formula seems to have a limit. When you can with the filled jar…success. your running example does not. With the idea behind the running example (not to try to show this general Chinese mastery concept doesn’t work~) but to show how to train to run at top speed for great distances. After being able to run at top speed for the distance of a mile without being out of breath then run at top speed for the distance of a mile and a tenth until you can do it consistantly without being out of breath. Run what you did before at top speed adding one tenth of a mile. After you can run this new distance competantly (without getting out of breath) add another tenth. Repeat this as long as you care to~:-).
Perhaps after a point one would excell the training constraints if limited (as to after two weeks add more or the such. Such as babies who after years can learn several words a week if not a day. It is not to be percieved that If I do this then by this time I can… so I calculate if I do it for this length I’ll be here.~. It is mathematics not arithmatic~
If you can press fifty pounds for fifteen minutes and then fifty two pounds for fifteen minutes adding two pounds to the press after you can do the current press for fifteen straight minutes? The time constraints in the Chinese thinies was put theree after research of the Human tolerance, likely. Talkies depict Teachers belittling students. theoretically Teachers used the appropriate methods to fuel the student’s Will. It just happened that Pride (Arrogance) was an easy stoker~ To do what I’ve outlined took perhaps dedication and Will…but The experts of at least China in the way back when at least perhaps comprehended it is achievable with a base, steady work, in small increments, over a range of Time…Success.
This Is Kung-Fu–~Work done over Time.
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Am I totally missing something here? Someone who understands what I’m saying, clarify for me.
Or are the old kung fu methods mostly just “legend” and no one really does them…
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