

"Strength: the quality or state of being strong"





About Unknown Tony is the host of the Paleo Magazine Radio podcast, author of "Paleo Grilling: A Modern Caveman's Guide to Cooking with Fire", and Cofounder of Powerful PT, an innovative information resource for Fitness Professionals. He has appeared on numerous local and national television and radio broadcasts and regularly hosts healthy cooking workshops and informational lectures. He is also a full-time Personal Trainer and Wellness Consultant who lives in Jacksonville Florida with his wife Jamie.

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Try this. Go to a gym, fitness center, or exercise facility and ask the people performing easy sets of bicep curls, chest flys, and leg extensions what their goal is. In addition to the typical "toning", "firming", and "bulking" responses, you'll likely hear quite a few "I want to get strong"s.(If you're feeling really spunky, you could then ask themlifting weights that barely break a sweat are helping them to reach their goal. Caution: this is a recipe for equal parts *blank-stare* and "Come at me bro!")Individual responses to exercise naturally vary, but the fact of the matter is,While the meaning of "strength" has come to symbolize emotional fortitude, mental toughness, and qualities such as endurance, durability, and perseverance,You could test your strength in many different ways, but one measure that I am particularly fond of is " The CrossFit Total ".The Crossfit Total was born when Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Mark Rippetoe sat down with CrossFit Grand Poobah Greg Glassman to figure out how one could measure "raw strength" while still applying the CrossFit principle of " functional movement ".After much deliberation, Rippetoe decided on "(performed with feet on floor within the field of gravity unlike an exercises such as the bench press where the trainee is supine),(someone with a reasonable amount of skill can perform them alone without a high level of risk),(none of the lifts require expensive personal equipment).However, if you have the requisite skill, are injury-free (or at least not injured in a way that will be worsened by attempting The CrossFit Total), and would like to find out how your strength stacks up, you might want to give The Total a try.Essentially a barbell shoulder press performed in a standing position. A properly performed press assesses the strength and stability of the shoulders and challenges total body balance and stability.While both the deadlift and the squat work "the legs", when properly performed, the deadlift recruits a much higher percentage of muscle fibers from the hamstrings and the glutes.The proverbial "King" of all weight training exercises, the squat activates every muscle in the body, with a particular emphasis on the quadriceps, glutes, and stabilizing muscles of the core."Intensity, What Is It?" by Clarence Bass, http://www.cbass.com/IntensityResistanceTraining.htm"The ability of a person or animal to exert force on physical objects using muscles." Wikipedia.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_strength"The CrossFit Total", www.CrossFit.com, http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/52-2006_CFTotal.pdf "What is CrossFit?" www.CrossFit.com, http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/what-crossfit.htmlImages and Gif's from ExRx.com, http://www.exrx.net/