Please tell me why gyms are full of scrawny and fat boys and men whose entire workouts consist of benchpress, bicep curls and tricep kickbacks?
What do these people think they're doing?
Why do I train a 59 year old woman who can overhead press more than most of them?
Why do I train with a 55kg 5ft3in girl who can do more pull-ups and dips than most of them?
Why can't anyone smell the coffee?
Why is winter cold?
Likr it or not, we're animals...we're designed to move, to fight, to climb.
So...
Does it really matter how much you can benchpress?
Yesterday's Training:
5 sets of 5 Tactical Pull-Ups with incremental hold at the top
3 sets of 3 reps Deadlift @ 140kg - felt ridiculously heavy, I really need to start hitting some proper deads again - I feel a PTTP strength cycle approaching over Christmas :)
13 Left & Right TGUs with the 24 (days 6 & 7 of the TGU/Swing Challenge - I'd fallen behind!)
200 swings with the 24 (2 sets of 50 and one set of 100)
Today's Training So Far:
Pistols - 3 sets of 8 each leg
Incremental Pull-Up/Push-Up superset (1-8)
Weighted split jumps followed by card running (16 jumps, 10 cards)
Incremental bottom hold dips - 3 sets of 1-8 followed immediately by decline push-ups
Bungee OHS drill - 3 sets of 10
Just got to fit in 8 TGUs later, and get Week 2 Swings off to a good start, and the job's a good un!
I moan, I'm irritated and irritating, my life is complex and frustrating...
but yesterday evening, during a set of 100 swings with the 24, perfect cadence and form from rep 1 to rep 100, everything was perfect....
General Out.
Take this for what it's worth, but if we just keep on keepin on, people will take notice and begin to TRAIN. We(trainers) can only work hard to provide excellent training for the people we have influence with. It's been my experience that most of the people that balk at real training we don't really want in our gym.
ReplyDeleteIt's my belief that if we offer a quality product consistently, enough people take notice and begin to shift their idea of "working out" to training. It's wonderful that through this community, sub-culture, whatever you want to call it, there are enough people that give a shit. If we stick together, don't get caught up in any one way, share ideas and continue to grow and evolve, we will make a difference.
Agreed, Mitch.
ReplyDeleteIt just doesn't stop me wanting to shake people sometimes...maybe the way we train and the results we get, and the results our trainees get, will do the shaking for us on a long enough timeline.
How do you eat an elephant? One mouthfull at a time - maybe some days I try to eat too much.
As always, thanks for your insight, my brother.