Is Bodybuilding Incomplete?

The bodybuilding that you see at the gym, people siting and laying down, lifting 30 times, and sitting somewhere else is, low quality neutral.

The muscles people develop from minimal exercise, that focuses on muscle isolation, and not muscle integration are few.

I think we can all imagine a hard working farmer or road worker, with bigger and much more integrated muscles.

These folks seriously work 8 hours a day, and if they eat protein, and use the muscle this affords them, they will beat the gym experience.

Anybody who does more than what you see at the gym, an older lady, who chooses to power walk with eventually heavier dumbbells.

And a jogger who isn’t a stranger to wrist and ankle weights, maybe a responsibly-light vest, will beat the common bodybuilder by a lot.

So as long, as they add more pounds, when their body adapts to their existing weights.

If they don’t so that, then their muscles will not continue growing, they will berating will become calm, and the weights will seem light.

I must explain that lifting maximally heavy weights at the gym, prevents people from lifting heavier, because they don’t lift for long enough.

What people refer to as muscle failure, after those 10 lifts, or first set, seems to be mostly a disruption of circulation.

An older lady walking home with groceries gets a better workout, because she won’t let her self be overwhelmed but not buying too much.

But both the common modern bodybuilder, plateaued for lifting their max, and the lady, even with progressively haver groceries, have the same problem.

They are isolating muscles, the jogger here wins by a mile, even though they can only carry dumbbells they engage all their muscles.

Paying attention to gently increase their initial dumbbell or wrist weights, just about as soon as their body adapts to the initial 3 pounds will grow muscle.

Here, in contrast, the average bodybuilder, starts at their maximum weight, and they aren’t going to get very far, too heavy and no endurance.

They will lock them selves in a corner, simply put: unlike a jogger, because they are lifting their maximum they can’t lift for long enough to adapt.

But the problem the lady and the bodybuilder both suffer from is not duration, either.

The problem is lack of twisting and turning, not just dancing, but performing, up, down, left, right, and around with dumbbells.

In short they aren’t swimming with it, their bodies are not flowing, the gazelle jogger comes close, but it is the swimmer that leads the way.

Bodybuilding is that flowing motion, that impacts all major muscle groups, and everything in between.

Now it is important to mention, athletes push themselves to the max, and do cause damage to their bodies.

But we can see how a swimmer is much safer than a cross country runner, who occasionally hits the paves streets.

And here is, where true bodybuilding lies.

Like a jogger you first build up an hour’s worth of endurance, and start by lifting light weights as not to ruin the hard earned hour.

But, you have to perform a light dumbbell dance like a swimmer would, more correctly a performance dancer.

And before you disagree, let me tell you who the judge of all of this is: your older self, at 50, 60, 70, 80 and beyond.

All the muscles you don’t exercise by unwisely isolating them out, are the ones you will wish you had.

Lastly, this unwinding swimming dance with eventually heavier dumbbells, will give you an enormous body, with enormous muscles, if you keep going.

But it won’t be your beauty that you will carry with greatness, it will be your health and flexibility, the growing, renewing, flexible body.

Note how sad it will be when you sill have your muscles but your body aches, and you can’t get up from the couch without wanting to make noises.

That is not old age, that secondary muscle atrophy, the muscles isolation leaves out, that a swimmer can reach, but a robot can’t.

Bodybuilding is not bad, but the way it is commonly meant to be practiced, is sadly complete: It lack the integrated exercise part, the swim dance part.

And What we see practice at the gym today, along with that fast plateau trap, I’ll let you figure out what it is, based on the results, you are seeing.