Always Remember The importance of "The Movement"

We are all individuals and we all have a varying level of Baseline Strength, a sort of "Strength Constant", if you can consider anything in this world we live in to be "constant"... Taking Baseline Strength into consideration, we all start we we start, in terms of resistance. Now, training for strength is important, because everyone wants to be strong. Also remember that when we do resistance training, we are stimulating our muscles to grow AND we are training our bodies to perform that specific movement. Now, taking a MOVEMENT like the squat for example: You most likely train in the Squat Movement because you want stronger legs, and that's fine, and too frequently do we forget that You Get What You Train For!!! You train the bench press, you train your muscles to perform that movement through space. Your body moves how you train it to move. Now, If you're an athlete and you're training your body with a particular movement, then you're probably training your body to learn that movement for your sport/activity. Here's what I'm getting at: It's perfectly fine to train your body with that movement, however, you want to use a resistance that will allow your body to perform that movement at a reasonable rate of speed, particularly at a speed that will help you move faster than the "other guys"... Let's say that you're training in the Bench Press: You're training that muscle group because your want to develop pushing power through your pectoral muscles. Here's where resistance becomes important: Heavier weights that only allow 1-6 to six reps cause you to train your muscle to maximally contract and do what is called "grinding", which is essentially squeezing maximally to control the resistance. Now, think about it: If a heavier weight takes longer to put up, and as a consequence, causes that muscle group to "grind", then is that a good weight for you to use? If you're in a sport/activity that requires you to push and shove for long periods of time, then you want to adjust the weight and train the desired muscles with that weight. At the end of the day, it all boils down to SAID Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands.... or in other words... You get what you train for/with. Amir