[quote]Murasame wrote:
For this discution I borrowed an extract of the book “Dinosaur Training”, of Brooks Kubik:
The reason why most modern training is non-productive is simple: most people who train
with weights nowadays are not interested in serious results. Most people who lift weights do
so for reasons that have nothing to do with developing ferocious muscular strength and raw,
terrifying power. These are the type of members the modern gyms go out of their way to
attract. In fact, they are really the only type of members the modern gyms are interested in
having.
Most gyms want members who will be content to play around with aerobic exercises,
machine movements and light, light poundages. They cater to members who use the gym for
socializing or as a pick-up bar. The LAST thing they want is someone who is interested in
serious training.
The typical gym is crammed with non-essential machines, most of which are less than half as
functional as if they were designed by a baboon and assembled by an orangutan.
The purpose of the machines is to entice members of the public into shelling out their cash to join the establishment and reap the ?benefits? of training on what the instructors (who are nothing
more than glorified sales-people) tell them are the ?latest? and ?most scientific and high tech?
machines on the market.
Ninety percent of the equipment in the average gym could be melted
down or sold for scrap without diminishing the value of the place one iota.
What else takes up space in the typical gym? The typical instructor?a mindless goofball who
doesn?t have the faintest beginning of a glimmer of a shadow of a clue about what productive
training is all about. My golden retrievers, Sam and Spenser, could do a better job of training
gym members than does the average instructor, manager, or gym owner.
Ask the average instructor or gym owner to demonstrate the one arm deadlift. Ask him about
breathing squats. See what he knows about Olympic lifting. Check out his form in the one
arm snatch. Watch him try to clean and press bodyweight.
Ask him about round back lifting,
Joe Hise, the 5x5 system, rack work, Herman Goerner, heavy singles, Clyde Emrich, Indian
clubs, the farmer?s walk, the Roman column, hip belt squats, barrel lifting, or Arthur Saxon.
You?d be amazed at what the guy DOESN?T know. As a group, modern weight training
instructors and gym owners are clear proof that some people use the air hoses at gas stations
to inflate their heads every day.
Then you have the typical gym member - who is usually young, spoiled, pampered and far
more interested in looking pretty than in training hard. In fact, the average gym member
would run in terror if you tried to make him train HARD on even a single set of a single
exercise. A set of breathing squats would kill him. In fact, a hard set of curls or presses would
be more than he could handle.
Even WATCHING hard work would make him sick. He?d toss his cookies if he saw a dinosaur train!
Put them all together and you have an institution that promotes mass insanity instead of
rational weight training.
The idiot machines are designed to let people PRETEND they are
lifting weights. The instructors prepare workout programs that let members PRETEND they
are training. And the members are perfectly content to go right along with the whole scam.
So, well said[/quote]
If we ever get hover chairs invented, the entire planet will look like those fat lazy cartoon fuckers on Wall-E.
