Originally Posted by GeorgeBMac

I think, too often, we think of strength training as building large pec's or biceps or,,,, whatever ...

But real strength is internal -- yes, it is the Qi of which the asians speak -- but also physical core strength that doesn't show. Like that built with such things a swimming, yoga, pilates, etc... And, it makes sense: the body contains many hundreds of muscles. Layer after layer of them. But yet we mostly think of building and strengthening only the few on the outermost layer.

Increasingly, I am thinking it is the core strength that doesn't build mass that counts -- and that the weight lifter's biceps are mainly for show...