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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7627434"><p>I don't lift in a way that the kind of people who say "Do you even lift?" would acknowledge, but there's definitely technique. Both for safety and for increasing the amounts you can move.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can speak more about this. There are efficiency techniques to endurance, ranging from how you perform the motions to how effectively you isolate the muscles you don't actually need to use.</p><p></p><p>But there's a huge mental component to "pushing beyond your endurance limit" (which is sort of oxymoronic; I would instead say "learning where your endurance limit really is and being willing to go there.") It requires both a willingness to suffer, and skills you can practice to prevent your body from rebelling. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The same could be said for every skill, though. Working with trained domesticated animals is about as different from knowing how to respond to a rattlesnake as swimming is from climbing (both of which require more endurance than strength, for that matter.) Picking pockets has very little in common with juggling.</p><p></p><p>My pet peeve with the skills list is that there's no Int skill that is akin to Perception. "Investigation" has to cover everything from looking through a library for clues, to detecting irregularities in illusions. And spotting the inconsistency in a lie is (apparently) a function of Wisdom. B.S.</p><p></p><p>But I endeavor to persevere.</p><p></p><p>It's really just a question of how simulationist you want to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7627434"] I don't lift in a way that the kind of people who say "Do you even lift?" would acknowledge, but there's definitely technique. Both for safety and for increasing the amounts you can move. I can speak more about this. There are efficiency techniques to endurance, ranging from how you perform the motions to how effectively you isolate the muscles you don't actually need to use. But there's a huge mental component to "pushing beyond your endurance limit" (which is sort of oxymoronic; I would instead say "learning where your endurance limit really is and being willing to go there.") It requires both a willingness to suffer, and skills you can practice to prevent your body from rebelling. The same could be said for every skill, though. Working with trained domesticated animals is about as different from knowing how to respond to a rattlesnake as swimming is from climbing (both of which require more endurance than strength, for that matter.) Picking pockets has very little in common with juggling. My pet peeve with the skills list is that there's no Int skill that is akin to Perception. "Investigation" has to cover everything from looking through a library for clues, to detecting irregularities in illusions. And spotting the inconsistency in a lie is (apparently) a function of Wisdom. B.S. But I endeavor to persevere. It's really just a question of how simulationist you want to be. [/QUOTE]
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