The language police are back in town. Kidding aside, I believe it is important to get our semantics right in order to communicate effectively with each other. In today's world where just anyone can claim to be an 'expert' on basically anything (as long as it looks fashionable), I have recently struggled to understand what the term 'strength' actually means, what the factors are that constitute it, and why all of a sudden any  form of exercise seems to be classed as 'strength training'. In fact, though, I haven't struggled to understand it, and I want to use to use this article to clarify a few things. First of all, strength, according to Mark Rippetoe, founder of Starting Strength, is '...the ability to produce force against an external resistance.' The more force you are able to apply against an object through the means of muscular contractions, the stronger you are. Hard to argue with, isn't it?Likewise, this makes someone who can deadlift (...)