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Originally Posted by
Bill Been
Just to plus-up one previously touched-on point - strength adaptations are structural; architectural. After completing a well-run Novice LP, you're quite literally a different physical being than you were say, 9 months ago. Conditioning adaptations revolve around the efficient generation and use of energy and are enzymatic, or at best, intercellular. The body optimizes the creation of the chemical milieu that improves endurance. This is fairly straightforward for a functional human, hence our ability to obtain decent levels of "fitness" very quickly, and why such fitness fades very quickly.
So this happy little band of misfits tends to view conditioning through the lens of "how can this help my strength performance or weight class adherence?" because once you've gotten strong, you'll remain stronger than you otherwise would've been, for the rest of your life. The same cannot be said for conditioning, which requires constant maintenance or it regresses to the mean.