Simplicity Yields Complexity

This post by Scott Berkun (scottberkun.com » There are two kinds of people:
complexifiers and simplifiers) really got me thinking. He identifies two
kinds of people complexifiers and simplifiers.

Complexifiers are averse to reduction.
Their instincts are to turn simple assignments into quagmires, and to reject
simple ideas until they’re buried (or asphyxiated) in layers of abstraction.
Simplifiers thrive on concision. They
look for the 6x=6y in the world, and happily turn it into x=y. They never let
their ego get in the way of the short path. When you give them seemingly
complicated tasks they simplify, consolidate and re-interpret on instinct,
naturally seeking the simplest way to achieve what needs to be done. They find
ways to communicate complex ideas in simple terms without losing the idea’s
essense or power.

This lost generation of twenty and thirty
something “strength” coach are complexifiers. It seems they want to make
movement and training mysterious and complex. Don’t they realize that man has
been running jumping and throwing for thousands of years? The simplicity of
movement is what makes it complex. Learn and know the simple and the complex
will happen. You don’t learn this is class or in a textbook, you learn from the
people who have lived this for a long time. Get outside the weight room, watch
the athletes move in their sport and then train them for what they are doing in
their sport. Hint: if they have to move someone or a heavy object they should
spend more time in the weight room, if not less time. Also don’t forget
dumbbells are very smart, they accommodate to the body, bars do not. Give them
strength they can use, don’t abuse them.  Be a simplfier!