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BETTER

If you can’t define what “better” means, your program will always work on paper.

In human performance, the most common failure isn’t effort. It’s interpretation. Coaches and practitioners often treat outcomes as self evident when they’re actually arbitrary, built on feelings, fatigue, soreness, or a good story after a hard session. Without a clear definition of the capacity you’re trying to improve and a way to verify it, almost anything can be defended as “effective.” That is how noise becomes culture. “They got tired” becomes “they got better,” and exercise selection turns into an argument of preferences instead of physiology, adaptation, and relevance.

Sound exercise prescription is rationale first, methods second. What capacity are you targeting, why does that capacity matter for the sport or mission, what dose is required to move it, and what observable signal will confirm you got the adaptation you intended? If those anchors are missing, the athlete’s improvement gets credited to the plan by default, even when the gain was just exposure, familiarity, maturation, or the predictable jump you see in low training age populations.

Competence is not the ability to write hard training. It is the ability to predict, explain, and then demonstrate that the right capacity changed for the right reason.

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