something more about training styles

As I have discussed with myself many times before and have tried to tell YOU TOO, it is OK to participate in different training programs and disciplines, to mix and mingle and dibble dabble and waste your hours with the fancy classes in your fancy outfits and Zen floor mats and color coordinated tops and bottoms and Logo laden equipment.

I, however, will always be partial to the disciplines I practice, naturally, and therefore may be a bit apprehensive when the OTHERS try to claim fame and market themselves with lies.

What am I talking about? For instance, since I don't want to single out any one thing but rather to present and example: running and weight training against spinning and Pilates.

One way I think of it is this: if you want to mold, change, re-form an iron rod you'd have to put it under duress, hot fire and heavy pounding. You wouldn't sings songs to it and try to charm it to change, or do other sissy sh... to it to make it bend. Would you?

What do you think the human body resembles, how tough it may be against the elements and how complex it could be to survive 10s of thousand of years without significant changes. Now, how do you think we should treat our bodies if we want it to change? Against all genetics and evolution? Well, my guess would be to put it under duress. Make it do something taxing, stressful enough to initiate a change.

I am also partial to my sports because they are so easily "improvised" and casually executed even without the proper equipment. For about $200 you can have a nice getup to go running ($100 shoes, another hun for singlets or tanks and running shorts) that will last you 3-6 months. Only because today's shoes only last 300-500 miles and we have to have the latest and the greatest. For weights, all you need is a gym membership and a pair of old shorts and a few old Ts. Better yet, if you have no access to gym or weights, you can always do body weight exercise anywhere without any equipment at all. Come to my boot camp, I'll show ya...

Spinning, though it has helped many to loose weight and develop some overgrown quads, is so freakin' boring and ridiculous, when you are smelling everyone's sweat and getting no oxygen in a stuffy room, pretending that you are going somewhere when you actually in there because you chose not to go anywhere. Do you really think that riding on the road is anything like spinning? Are you using your body like you are on the road? I'd say maybe 5% of all spinners adjust their resistance to get a workout that resembles an actual ride. And I would still like to see them go anywhere outside, without the music. Don't get me wrong!! I have subbed spinning classes and have taken different instructors and my a.. was fried - but I don't cross train or ride, and I'd still like to be able to run (or walk). Plus, I find the hour unnecessarily long and not efficiently used by spinners.

Than take the sculpting classes. The kick boxing classes. The body works classes. The cardio circuit classes. Look closely at the participants going to those for years. Do they come out sculpted? Anyone? So why would people not listen to a trainer??? Wouldn't it be so easy for us to send the clients to a class? Prescribe a class schedule and call it a day?

Well, at the end of the day it all depends on individual goals. What is your goal? Do want to stay fit and have fun? Go to classes. Do you want to improve and boost metabolism and build strength and endurance? Get a professional, get a plan and live the life style that will get you there. Don't compromise! What are you? Are you not steel and iron? Are you macrame or a little twig?

I VILL KRUSH YOU!
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Do and train as you are and what you are. Just don't wear blinders...
Have a great week!