Talk:strength training

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strength training

SoP -- Liliana • 22:48, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

It's a sport, and is the set term for this sport, it's a two word not sop compound.Lucifer 22:58, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Set phrase, keep. — [Ric Laurent] — 00:06, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

For once, I agree with GT/Lucifer. It's borderline, but possibly distinct from the expected sum of parts. Dbfirs 11:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

It's not a sport, it's a form of exercise used in training for many a sport. --Hekaheka 12:34, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I would disagree for now, but I'm not sure if or how strength training differs from body building, except that body building gets to the point of being gross, whereas strength training actually makes you kinda hot. I think of strength training as body building for people who don't care to do steroids and look like aliens. — [Ric Laurent] — 14:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I can think of at least two differences: 1) there are competitions in body building but not in strength training 2) in body building one tries to get good-looking and voluminous (in somebody's eyes, at least) muscles but in strength training the focus is in adding the performance (and as by-product often also the volume) of the muscles. --Hekaheka 22:03, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

There are plenty of competitions for people who use strength training, but they're not called "strength training competitions". They're called sports. --EncycloPetey 18:58, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't see that it matters whether strength training is different from body building or not. A dictionary can and does contain words that mean the same thing. Leonxlin 18:22, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

As I read the definition it would be SoP were it not for the prepositional phrase "through anaerobic exercise." As no citations support this (or any other aspect of the definition) the entry is not really defensible as it stands. Move to RfV. DCDuring TALK 18:07, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Citations added; definition amended. --EncycloPetey 17:43, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Delete. --Mglovesfun (talk) 13:27, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Keep. Strength training is a specific form of resistance training that utilizes low numbers of repetitions with higher resistance. As Harvey Newton put it in 2006 (see another quote in the entry): "Strength training, a relatively new term, is applied to athletes who use resistance training to increase strength with the express purpose of improving performance in their chosen sport. Strength training implies that the athlete is actually using a high enough resistance, applied with a relatively low number of repetitions, to actually gain stength. Not everyone engaged in resistance training actually trains for increased strength." Strength training is a very specific form of resistance training, such that many major athletic teams now have strength coaches. --EncycloPetey 18:58, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Keep. Definitely a lexical item whose precise meaning cannot be deduced from the constituent words themselves. Leonxlin 18:22, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

•  Keep, essentially agree with EncycloPetey (talk • contribs), above. -- Cirt (talk) 01:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Kept. Tag had already been removed by Luciferwildcat (talk • contribs). — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 21:48, 12 August 2012 (UTC)