Spiritual Gains
When I was in high school and I wanted to get bigger and stronger for sports, I was at the mercy of my high school lifting coach. My coach was perhaps better than most at the time, but honestly the programming was not effective. We were stuck doing 3 sets of 10 with no concept of progressive overload so we made some progress if we stuck to it but without better programming the potential for progress was extremely limited. Fast forward to today and I have watched a high school kid come into the gym and go from completely untrained to an absolute beast in a few short years thanks to the information that is available to him via the internet. He has access to a free education via YouTube where he consumed content from powerlifters which made it possible for him to achieve numbers I never dreamed of as a teenager. Beyond basic programming he learned proper technique, nutrition, and supplementation. His powerlifting total passed mine in short order. Does this same concept carryover in t...