Defining Fitness: The Six Pillars Behind Power Shack Training

I'll be honest. I designed Power Shack Training completely selfishly.

I wanted the best training program for an experienced lifter with a home gym who loves training but doesn't have unlimited time. Because that's who I am. I'm sharing it because I think there are people in the same boat who want the same thing. But I didn't build this by asking what the market wanted. I built what I wanted.

And what I want is to be fit. Before we go any further, we should probably define what that means. To me, fitness is the body's ability to handle the physical demands of life.

There are six pillars:

• Strength: Can I produce force?
• Endurance: Can I keep going?
• Mobility: Can I move well through a full range of motion?
• Power: Can I express strength quickly?
• Body Composition: How much of me is muscle versus fat?
• Recovery: How quickly can I bounce back and do it again?

Fitness isn't any one of those things. It's the combination of all of them. Only chasing one is specializing, and there's nothing wrong with that. I've done it plenty of times myself. But specialization and fitness aren't the same thing.

Every decision I've made building PST comes back to those six pillars. My goal isn't to maximize one at the expense of the others. The goal is to build all of them well enough that I can confidently say I'm fit.