by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC It's not about the weight on the bar, it's not about how you look. It's not even entirely about health. So what is it? Why do we train? I am fiercely proud of all of my athletes. Some of them are stronger than others, in either absolute terms or by virtue of some allometric or other variable (height, weight, age, etc). Greysteel athletes are all well ahead of their peers in general population for strength, but as a group they demonstrate

by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC The coach-athlete system may be complete. But it may not be completely ideal. Lifting by yourself is often necessary, because Life. It can be productive and even pleasant—a nice change of pace. And it is certainly preferable to the alternative of not training at all, which, as we all know, can only lead to weakness, despair, spontaneous decapitation, felo-canine connubiality, and Total Protonic Reversal. That’s all bad. So even if circum