Training Partners

A good training partner learns over time about your strengths and weaknesses, so that you can be pushed to the limits of your capacity but not so far beyond those limits that you risk injury. A good training partner cares about your workout as well as his or her own. I’ve found that when two partners push each other in a mutually supportive way, workouts are more fun and productive than training solo. Most guys who train hard are competitive by nature. It just goes with the territory.  Those competitive fires can be stoked into a burning inferno by a great workout partner. There’s nothing like going rep for rep with a worthy adversary of equal strength. I’ve been lucky to have had a number of partners who were of equivalent strength and power and of the same “won’t back down” mindset.