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Saturday, April 25, 2009

No Resistance to Resistance

Whenever people talk about losing extra weight or getting into shape or just choosing a healthy lifestyle the words ‘ weight training’ don’t even remotely feature into the conversation. If at all they do its only discussed in a cynical manner completely omitting its positive effects. Its been quite some time now since we have been getting educated through newspapers, magazines and the internet about health but these still persists a resistance to resistance training or more commonly known as weight training.

While people dwell in this common notion that if one takes to weight training then

(A) They’re going to develop bulging biceps.

(B) They’re going to injure themselves or if they are injured they absolutely cannot even look at weights

(C) Weights = Heavy weights and nothing from light to moderate a weight training is only meant for those body building competitions.

Its time to wake up and smell the coffee and also differentiate from tea. To begin with if you are a woman you’ll need to be reborn as a man to develop bulging biceps as a result of weight training, as females do not possess the hormone responsible for the bicep’s bulge and that is TESTOSTERONE. So those females who have been misled by their peers or by their own common sense that muscle development due to weight training equals to biceps bulge get it out of the system NOW!! Then there are a few men and women who shy from weight training out of fear of injuring themselves. Let me take this oppurtunity to enlighten all the readers, one could very well injure oneself without weight training as well and if not pursuing exercise scientifically injury is just around the corner anyways. Most of the people who do get injured while weight training is only the outcome of faulty handling of the weight and it could very well be your own body weight. One need not resort to heavy weight training to result into injury infact most of the injuries incurred are because of ill- handling of the lightest weight possible and secondly due to incorrect form or body posture while working out.

Now that two categories of resistance to resistance training have been nullified the third most prevalent one is the very picture of weights in the mind is being drawn very negatively. The moment someone consults for getting into shape the look on the face is worth a kodak moment when I dare to utter the two magical words, ‘ Weight Training’. When one says go for weight training how can the mind take these words and convert them into the picture of a heavily muscular man lifting pounds that is equal to the weigt of a human ? I could never know !!! For once let the picture be that of a healthy and fit young bloke or young teenage girl who run to college or a senior citizen who has prevented or cured his/ her bone disease because they took to weight training or a woman in her mid 30’s who continues to live a fit lifestyle.

Wish you wellness,


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