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There’s so much weird shit happening in gyms these days just for the sake of being weird. Not for any health or performance benefit. Much of the time it’s an attempt by the trainer to feel superior. To make their client feel as if they’re learning something new and exciting when something much more practical and basic would have been more effective.
There’s the kettle bell fad. I actually like kettle bell’s, but you can’t use them and only them and get the best results possible. There are the swizz ball, the resistance band, and bosu ball fads that are all aimed at being different, but aren’t in any way adding to the effectiveness of workouts or getting people better results. They’re just different. Not better. Different.
So why the hell am I doing a blog post about weird exercises?
Well it’s important to have variation in our training, more-so from a rep, set, and cadence standpoint than an exercise standpoint, but it’s still important to incorporate different exercises as a way to hit our muscles in different ways, but also to keep our workouts new and exciting.
Add these exercises into your routine. Some of them might be a bit weird, other’s are pretty damn normal, but in either case, they aren’t seen enough in gyms these days.
Vince Gironda was a man who was way before his time. He’s known as the “Iron Guru”, but also as the greatest personal trainer and muscle-building expert ever to live. He was a guy that believed steroid users were cheaters. A guy who believed in simplicity over complicated training methods. And he was a guy who we’re still learning from today.
In every area of life there are lessons we can learn from our predecessors. The people who paved the way for us. The men and women who accomplished great things tens, hundreds or even thousands of years ago will always remain relevant. We get away from this in the fitness industry where fads rule, and methods that have worked forever are seen as old and out-dated.
It’s 1:31 am and I’ve had a great day. I’ve done a lot of work, I’ve had fun with friends, and now I’m back writing.
The day was filled with ups and downs. Great ideas and points of high energy, then stagnant moments and points of low energy. Like any day it was a microcosm of life. We have times when we’re supremely confident and secure in what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. Other times we’re wandering with little focus, direction or ambition.
I’m not sure how I got onto the video, but I came across a collection of Will Smith interviews on youtube. Not expecting a whole lot, I clicked play, and what followed was some great wisdom from a man who truly is living life at it’s fullest. It made me realize that even though life is filled with its ups and downs, if we’re passionate about something, and willing to do the work necessary to see it through, we can accomplish anything. Not just what our parents have accomplished, or what our friend accomplish, but we can truly accomplish anything we set our minds to.
Do you need to deprive yourself of everything that is tasty, and enjoyable in order to build an awesome body and get in great shape?
That’s what most people struggle with, myself included early on in my training. We think that you have to deprive ourselves. That building lean muscle, and getting a six-pack is about deprivation, and saying no to the treats and the things we enjoy most.
But it doesn’t have to be like that. Much of the fitness industry will have you think that you have to stick to a strict meal plan, that you can’t consume any alcohol, or that you have to eat boring foods that aren’t all that tasty. Well that simply isn’t true.
