Muscle For Everyday Use

Go Muscles vs. Show Muscles

By: Josh Proch

For the past 30 years we have been training wrong. Our fitness programs have been highly influenced by equipment manufactures like Nautilus, who invented pin-selected weight machines and then brain washed us to believe that exercising on a machine was more effective, and at the same time bodybuilders like Arnold who published “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding” and then the movie “Pumping Iron.” These programs have helped to develop great “Show Muscles”, but done very little to improve the function of our everyday activities and athleticism, our “Go Muscles”. At the same time over the past 30 years we have been continually getting fatter and more deconditioned as a population. How can this be if pin-selected machines are the best way to exercise and the techniques of bodybuilders are superior to everything else? They aren’t!

Unless you are a bodybuilder there is no benefit to building “Show Muscles”. Instead, you need to change you focus to building “Go Muscles”. Go Muscles are not developed on weight machines or by doing single-joint exercises, such as bicep curls and seated chest presses. Rather they are built through total body exercises, such as deadlifts, push-ups, cleans, etc., and are built off of the ability to lift and control your own bodyweight before adding any external resistance. Also, Go Muscles are developed standing, especially on one leg, not seated or lying down. When you are seated or lying down you are not engaging your core muscles, which are the foundation of a strong body.

So why is a 40-year-old mother of 4 still doing seated chest presses and bicep curls? She is never going to compete in a bodybuilding contest and just wants to lose 10 pounds and have more energy. But yet most programs still put her on a circuit of machines. The only thing this is going to help her do is flex for the other moms at soccer or tee ball, it’s not going to help her drop those 10 pounds or load and unload groceries into the car and still have enough energy to wash clothes, cook dinner, and help the kids with homework.

Many people are beginning to change their approach to fitness, but there are still many more that are using the same failing methods that went out of style in the 80’s with leg warmers and spandex unitards.

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