Are we a "fitness trend"? Here's how to stop fitness trends from ruining your body
To reply in the affirmative would indicate that someone has ruined their body. I guess we’d have to figure out how many Starting Strength practitioners have ruined their bodies.
Well, we should be. Rational strength training is the base for fitness after all.
I don't know how, where or why you find these shitty articles all the time, Rip. I hope for your sanity you don't search the web for them. This one is especially hilarious, in a sad way. Or rather especially sad, in a hilarious way.
"You’re setting yourself up for burnout syndrome,” physical therapist Corinne Croce, 36, tells The Post. She says the condition develops from putting repetitive stress on the same parts of the body.
Yes, bad stress! Drop! It is known, repetitive stress is evil, at least without PT and massage. The corrective exercises look like a horrible way to waste your time.
Dysfunction: Hamstring weakness Corrective exercise: Sprinter bridge
And here I thought squats and deadlifts would strengthen my weak hammies. Thank god this buff former pro soccer player shows us the light. Looking forward to my intense repeated stress tonight, heavy squats and presses followed by light volume DL. Maybe I should check my ankle mobility first...
Not even close.
The thinking in this article is bizarre. There's the correct observation that there are now way too many fitness trends and gimmicks, but then they recommend doing a bit of all of it. As if a counterbalance to the increase in extremes is to all of them a little bit. "Dysfunction: X, corrective exercise: Y." If your fitness trend is causing dysfunction, maybe stop doing the fitness trend. Just a thought.
Crazy reasoning. Crazy.
A friend of mine writes for the Post. Murdoch subsidizes it with profits from his other ventures, so it’s easier to get work writing there than you might think. Obviously you have to be able to write well enough to get your article published, but I doubt that there is a ton of scrutiny on what goes into the fluff section of the paper.
Mark, I know you define strength as "the production of force against an external resistance." Although you're not a conditioning coach, is there an exact way that you'd define conditioning?
Getting hot, sweaty, and out of breath. Usually in the gym. Maybe on the track.
You've made it sound like conditioning is a bad thing! Not true Mark. You like the prowler for this purpose and think that conditioning work may be of value to a more advanced lifter. So improving one's conditioning is improving one's ability to....what?
I have?
I posit that conditioning is the training adaptation that enables a trainee to do specific work with greater ease, though some carryover to other activities is probable.
Maybe I am using the wrong term. Maybe instead of conditioning, it should be called "cardio", "cardiovascular training"or "aerobic capacity training"
What I am asking about is NOT sports specific... just like strength training. And it can be improved.
I think Jim Wendler likes Hill Sprints for this type of "general conditioning." I thought Rip liked the prowler for this purpose. Any motion that makes your whole body move seems to be better because it would get you out of breath quicker. So, it makes sense to me that sprinting and prowler pushing would be the most useful tools.
Person A can do 8 Hill Sprints in a few minutes, no problem. Person B makes it half way up once and keels over. And maybe person B is stronger then person A in the big lifts.
So, person A has a better ability to do what? It probably has to do with breathing, lungs, heart, oxygen, C02. I was just hoping for an exact definition.
Conditioning is primarily the training of the various energy systems to be most effective and efficient. Which system(s) would depend upon the actual type of conditioning being done.
Mark Rippetoe, how would you define "aerobic capacity"? I believe this may be what I had in mind, when I originally asked about conditioning.
I wouldn't define aerobic capacity. Not my field of expertise.
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