Not everyone wants to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger

SO WHY ARE YOU TRAINING THAT WAY?

Body Building is about developing the body for the purposes of exhibition, not for functional use. The goal is the development of big and defined muscles for the purpose of esthetics (appearance). The problem with this is that bodybuilding has nothing to do with fitness. It is not at all about the development of the body for optimum human performance in our daily lives.

Body building routines breaks down natural, multiple muscle group movements into less-efficient and less-effective component parts. Our lives do not revolve around the isolated use of our muscles. In fact, you’ll find that many exercises that that are intended to maximize bodybuilding effectiveness have no basis on practical or functional movements whatsoever. When have you ever lifted anything as you would lift in a dumbbell or barbell curl? Well… other than a drink or putting food in your mouth? Of course, if you are planning on lifting one of those giant 6 foot submarine sandwiches to your mouth or drinking a 25lbs glass of wine with your arms firmly held to the sides of your body or over a preacher bench; a body builder workout may be the best way to go.

But our hectic lives require a wide variety of compound muscle movements, and for us to utilize both aerobic and anaerobic endurance in different amounts throughout our day.

Unfortunately, many fitness facilities and personal trainers use the visual, non-functional, ideal as the standard to which they train clients, instead of encouraging them to develop a broad based and inclusive spectrum of athletic fitness. These clubs and trainers are doing you a great disservice when they focus on the Body builder style workouts and claim that it is the key to healthy living.

Besides not everyone want to look like they are auditioning to star in a sequel to Pumping Iron.

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