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GYM “FUNNIES” and why they aren’t.

The man in the plastic bags – honest – on the treadmill with sweat pants and hooded sweat shirt  OVER the bags thinks he is losing weight.

Wrong:  Professional bicyclists know that the moment you feel the need for hydration and you feel over heated you are defeated. Studies show that muscles put out only 70% of their maximum output when the athlete is overheated.

Therefore, the man in the plastic bags – honestly he was in plastic bags – is not losing weight. He is overheating.  So if the idea is to go long and slow to lose weight on a treadmill, WILL HE BE ABLE TO GO LONGER?

Of course not .

No way.

No chance.

Absolutely not.

The body is overheating.

The body is failing.

Where did this come from?

Probably this man saw a boxer or wrestler “make weight” by shedding fluid.

Here is the key: Fluid loss is not weight loss.

Good weight loss is the use of the body’s stored reserves – AKA FAT. Losing fluid and overheating the body can have serious consequences – but none of these consequences are weight loss.

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IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT NORMAL TO BE INJURED WHILE LIFTING WEIGHTS!!!

 

 

 

                              One trainer using the AFITNESSADDICTION.COM model recently commented that he had begun training a local 14 year old high school baseball player. The boy in this case was playing for a local high school coach who recently decided that all baseball players should lift weights.

Curious to find out what had been going on he asked him to explain the routine. The player said that 5 times per week the coach had the baseball team working in the weight room doing a series of dead lifts and various squats into clean and jerk combination moves.

What is wrong with this approach?

1. The boy is 14 years old and has no weight training experience. He is a beginner.
2. The boy has done no adaptive work and is now doing heavy power lifting with no fundamental work in progressive resistance training.
3. The boy will be injured lifting these sets day after day – possibly seriously – possibly permanently.
4. This coach does not understand that some exercises are not exercises. These exercises are competitive lifting events and are not designed for everyday workout routines.

Conclusion:

The weights, rep limits and number of sets is not correct for the sport in question and the age and experience of the athlete.

This is an injury waiting to happen.

It is almost CERTAIN TO HAPPEN unless something is done.

Coaches routinely prescribe workouts that are not appropriate for their teams because youth sport coaches are NOT PERSONAL TRAINERS.

 

Did you know that the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York requires cadets to perform a series of strength and cardio minimum certifications? And, if the cadet can reach that minimum certification he is then free to choose or develop his or her own workout program?

Last summer, two third year cadets from West Point were touring the United States and dropped in to workout at a gym where a personal trainer using the AFITNESSADDICTION.COM model for his clients worked. He was shocked to see these cadets using a program which was an American off shoot of the Russian power lifting protocol from the late 1950 era. He interviewed the cadets who swore that the program was helping them develop their strength. They had done some research into power development and were working out on their own with a program they found. Neither future officer played a sport at the service academy. Both felt that the injuries they sustained WHILE LIFTING were NORMAL for ANYONE who lifted weights.

1. One had a torn shoulder rotator.
2. The other had a knee ligament injury that required a brace to workout. (And the injured knee buckled during the workout to such an extent that a group of local accomplished weight lifters gathered around the young men and strongly suggested that they discontinue the sets they were performing. Their form was so bad and the weight so excessive that two of the watchers asked the gym fitness manager if the gym could force the cadets to stop lifting and ask them to leave the club).
3. Both claimed that their mandatory timed mile runs were increasing rather than decreasing.

      4.   Both claimed that their strength gains were worth the pain and injuries.

 

It is not normal to be injured while training.

This is a serious misapplication of a specific type program. These athletes were continuously lifting amounts of weight that approximated and exceeded their one rep maximum limits. There was no developmental period. It was strictly week after week and month after month of extremely heavy weight training. They had selected the wrong program and they were damaging themselves and possibly their careers in the military. They were not power lifters. They were third year college students who needed a maximum strength program that would not create the body of a power lifter.

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SHOULD I WORRY ABOUT MY WEIGHT IF I AM DOWN THREE PANT SIZES?

Is my scale my friend or my enemy?

This question was put to us recently by one person using the WOMEN WEIGHT LOSS ANNUAL PROGRAM.  The answer is actually very simple and we need to keep two thoughts in mind:

 

Thought number one:

Muscle weighs more than fat.

Thought number two:

Ten pounds of muscle requires 500 calories PER DAY for optimal maintenance.

 

Muscle weighs more than fat and muscle needs protein and calories to maintain its size and composition.

 

So what is your ideal body weight?

Who can say unless you have been optimally fit for your age, your height and your body shape?

So what we should consider so much more than what we want to weigh is what – or who – we want to look like.  If we want to be down several pant sizes and we feel great but we weigh the same, what does it matter? (This is of course not true for someone who is morbidly obese and needs to lose a very large amount of weight. For that person the scale is a significant ally). But most people want to trim a few pounds, get fit and look great.

Here is a good thought:

Pick someone you want to look like – a triathlete maybe or a fit actor or actress. Find out or measure their height in inches and prorate their weight to your size. Then create a goal which is close to that “weight to height ratio” and you will be very near the place you want to be.  And wow, if the person is super fit you will be AMAZED at the number of times you find that their weight far exceeds what you thought it would be PER INCH OF HEIGHT. Why? Because muscle weighs a great deal more than fat and lean dense muscle is the best type of muscle you can develop.

This is not body builder muscle but functional, high strength to size and weight muscle. We can first create size then strengthen that muscle for everyday use, competitive sports fitness or general good health and weight loss and weight maintenance.  (Note that we also have an annual maximum size program. This is for the person who wants to gain as much size as quickly as possible).

Here are a few conclusions that you can draw from this article:

1. I can eat more and stay thinner if I build muscle. Why? Muscle needs lots of calories for maintenance.
2. I can tailor my appearance with resistance and proper cardiovascular training.
3. The scale does not know if I have ten pounds of muscle or ten pounds of fat on my body.  The scale does not know how I VALUE that weight. Is it GOOD weight – muscle and strong connective tissue or BAD weight – body fat leading to declining health and permanent health related impairment of the quality of life? (Seniors- take note and use our senior programs).

So in a general sense, the scale can be very helpful in gauging morbid weight loss. But the scale is minimally helpful to most people who are not in a specific competition that has weight limits (think wrestling) or has a penalty for excessive weight that is extracted by the sport (think jockeys or professional motocross riders). The rest of us should generally give little regard to what the scale says.

Unless you are in one of these categories – and we do use our model to train and assist these people – you should probably think a little less about what you weigh and consider these questions as the answer to the dilemma:

What do I look like? Is this what I want to look like?

 

How do I feel? Do I feel dynamic, strong and powerful in my body now?

 

If you like the answer to these important life/body questions, then the scale is meaningless.

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