I meant that both ROP and S&S are minimalist.
And that non-minimalist training will lead to much better results in absolute terms (i.e. more strength, hypertrophy, and/ conditioning).
Individual situations will of course vary. If you live a super busy life with young kids and a career etc, as I do, you may have no other choice but minimalism. Just don't kid yourself that the results will be anywhere near as good if you ran more well rounded programs.
I stress I'm talking in absolute terms. If you only want to be a bit strong and a bit conditioned, you wouldn't run a 6 day per week PL program, for example.
Honestly, I respectfully don’t agree because this is a too much a generic statement because strength, being conditioned, hypertrophy are all specific terms. They mean sth with in a context. And within any given context the one who is more focused will have a higher chance to be better.
If strength definition is pushing a heavy sled. The guy who pushes only heavy sled will win against a guy who does dips, pull ups, biceps curls, deadlifts. Strength is definitely a specific skill in my opinion. A guy who can push a heavy sled will not be able to do 10 HSPUs how do we define strength?
Hypertrophy work is bloated by the programs or role models that uses PEDs. A non enhanced person, in order to develop the highest amount of lean muscle mass need to focus on a handful exercises for a very long time dedicated to hard hypertrophy training to maximize muscle mass. Someone to get better lean mass hypertrophy out of a biceps curl than an extra set of press or a squat, that person should be getting closer to genetic size potential which very rare people gets to.
Conditioning is again specific but especially when it comes to conditioning, to be good, to be really very very good, I think you only need one exercise. I know guys with perfect conditioning and they only run.
Sorry, but not trying to defend minimalist programs . I am indeed trying to teach my self the strength of focus. 99% of people who exercise including me, need to do more of a smaller number of things.