Absolute: The Art and Science of Human Performance

Absolute: The Art and Science of Human Performance

Absolute Visual: Strength An Emergent Behavior

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Dr. Michael Chivers and John Quint
Jun 19, 2024
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Strength An Emergent Behavior: the top-down neurology synthesizing with bottom up biology to generate a strength output.

Strength = Emergent Behavior

When we understand strength as an emergent behavior, it is simple for us to see there is a top-down neurological component and bottom-up component biological of every strength output. In understanding strength output as the "behavior" of a system, that is the athlete, we as strength practitioners see two main pathways to enhance that output:

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