Dan Cleather

“Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick.  After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick.  Now that I’ve understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick.  The height of cultivation is really nothing special.  ...  It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.”
Bruce Lee”
― Dan Cleather, The Little Black Book of Training Wisdom: How to train to improve at any sport

“The justification for progressive overload can easily be derived from a consideration of the GAS.  We overload an organism by asking it to perform a demanding task – that is, we apply a stress to the organism, and the organism adapts in a way that accommodates the demands of that stress.  In particular, there is an increase in the performance capability associated with the task.”
― Dan Cleather, The Little Black Book of Training Wisdom: How to train to improve at any sport