Fitness Fail

Assorted ramblings on training, nutrition, social issues surrounding these areas and a generous side of irrelevancy

Core Training is a waste of time.

Stop wasting your time doing foo-foo ab isolation exercises. If you’re concerned with aesthetics, focus on your diet. If you’re concerned with performance, focus on your diet, then do some heavy lifting that forces the core to do its job and stabilize your body. Think front squat, deadlifts, overhead squats, get ups, etc..

Don’t make people look in the mirror.

I realize that saying people should take responsibility for their actions is nothing new, or terribly original on my part. But I’m still shocked at just how far it goes. So here is my question to all of you. At what point do social welfare and personal responsibility intersect?

Crossfit, Intensity and Burnout.

I am not by any means saying that all out out circuits don’t have their place. I really enjoy pushing myself. In a twisted way, when I’m gagging with my head in a bucket, some little voice in the back of my head is cheering because I know I gave it everything I had.

Despite this, I don’t think it’s the best way to train, at least not all the time.

Yahoo Article on “Healthy Foods” – a sign of a step in the right direction?

So it seems a lot of the more “mainstream” Internet health and fitness circles have been discussing a recentYahoo article called “The 20 worst healthy foods in the supermarket. A friend of mine sent it to me, and I grudgingly read it. To be honest, I expected to roll my eyes at it, and feel I’d completely wasted the time I spent on it. I was pleasantly surprised.

A girl who wants to look like a model < sigh >

I really don’t get why woman want to look like they’re starving though. I’d also argue that this isn’t a matter of “to each their own” since attempting to attain the look of the women above is unhealthy and destructive by contrast most of features we have evolved to find attractive are markers of health and fertility.

Women and not lifting heavy, when will the myths FINALLY die?

OK, this one is nothing terribly new, but some of the places I’m still bumping into it are driving my crazy. Where does this nonsense where women are afraid they’ll look like a female contest bodybuilder come from? Seriously. I’m tired of it.

I’m increasingly seeing fitness blogs and articles around the internet extolling the virtues of women lifting. This is good, really good. I’m really glad to see this step in the right direction. But all too often those same pieces feature pictures of some curl curling ten pounds. So, just this once, I’m going to stop being critical and try to produce something helpful.

Making gyms “inviting”.

My initial rather callous response was “If it makes you uncomfortable, get over it, you’re there to workout. You will sweat, you will get dirty, it will hurt, it won’t be pretty.” Now, almost as soon as I wrote this, I realized what a cheesy affected macho sentiment it sounded like. I started to wonder why I had such an irate reaction and it got my thinking.

and they let her teach?

I just finished up a Yoga class I was taking through college and my instructor there is a complete moron. Okay, maybe not complete but she tries to force information into her student’s heads that is unreliable, out dated or just plain wrong. Each class she gives out a handout at the beginning of class [...]

WebMD Article on “10 Diet Myths”

A friend of mine’s family member recently sent an email cut and paste of CBS News piece. It’s been quoted in several of the popular online new sites besides CBS and links to a WebMB article on “10 Diet Myths”.

Now, some of the advice here isn’t bad. A lot of what is given is even what is supported by studies….

You won’t see a lot of free weights

I’m going to start off with a slightly serious note of local interest.  A friend of mine sent me this link http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08228/904499-85.stm It’s worth a read, and pretty depressing.   I think a lot of the attitudes reflected in the article show exactly why I dislike mainstream “health” clubs.  A choice quote of mine from the [...]

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