Hey Mr.Shugart, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. What do you think when you hear people say " I want to get toned" or “i’m training for the tone”
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[quote]bigpump23 wrote:
Hey Mr.Shugart, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. What do you think when you hear people say " I want to get toned" or “i’m training for the tone”
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I simply take them out with a double tap, of course.
Nah, it depends on who’s saying it. Usually it’s a beginner, and with newbies you have two choices:
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Insult them, berate them and walk off feeling really superior yet knowing you prevented someone from getting involved in this whole lifting thing. (Some forum posters do this daily to new lifters.)
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Take a few deep, cleansing breaths and educate them.
In the end, it’s all about vocabulary. You can call it toning or hypertrophy combined with fat loss or whatever. When talking to a 45 year old woman with three kids who’s been out of the gym since the 80’s and thinks weight training will make her grow balls, I sometimes use the word “tone” myself because I know she understands this.
Later I point her to some good articles and try to educate her, but you can’t just dogpile them with science and tell them to “Just fuckin’ eat and you’ll get ripped and hyooooge!”
This is like trying to get someone to love squats by piling 900 pounds on the bar and crushing them the first time they try the exercise. Fun? You bet! Productive? Nope.
I blogged about this before:
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=621021
But basically I take the deep breaths and then try to help them. It’s a slow process, but these days I try to recruit new people into the training club, not scare them off for ego satisfaction.
[quote]Chris Shugart wrote:
bigpump23 wrote:
Hey Mr.Shugart, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. What do you think when you hear people say " I want to get toned" or “i’m training for the tone”
I antcipate a good reply
I simply take them out with a double tap, of course.
Nah, it depends on who’s saying it. Usually it’s a beginner, and with newbies you have two choices:
-
Insult them, berate them and walk off feeling really superior yet knowing you prevented someone from getting involved in this whole lifting thing. (Some forum posters do this daily to new lifters.)
-
Take a few deep, cleansing breaths and educate them.
In the end, it’s all about vocabulary. You can call it toning or hypertrophy combined with fat loss or whatever. When talking to a 45 year old woman with three kids who’s been out of the gym since the 80’s and thinks weight training will make her grow balls, I sometimes use the word “tone” myself because I know she understands this.
Later I point her to some good articles and try to educate her, but you can’t just dogpile them with science and tell them to “Just fuckin’ eat and you’ll get ripped and hyooooge!”
This is like trying to get someone to love squats by piling 900 pounds on the bar and crushing them the first time they try the exercise. Fun? You bet! Productive? Nope.
I blogged about this before:
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=621021
But basically I take the deep breaths and then try to help them. It’s a slow process, but these days I try to recruit new people into the training club, not scare them off for ego satisfaction.
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Can I get an AMEN!
That was a true, yet HILARIOUS post, Shugs!! When’s your comedy tour coming through Michigan??
not sure if it was blogged or an actualy article but didn’t Shugs write about taking time off from the gym? I’m about to take a week off and I’m interested in reading it