Are You A One-Dimensional Trainer?

Arthroscopic Knee Surgery:

Most people are classically biased toward one of the three legs of the fitness triad: progressive resistance training, cardiovascular training or diet/nutrition. How many folks try and lose weight by dieting and dieting alone? A safe bet would be a majority of individuals. Ever wonder why people who lose a lot of bodyweight rapidly still look fat? It's because they are still fat.

When the human organism perceives starvation it reverts to a primordial hardwiring that seeks to withhold body fat (the last line of defense against starvation) at all costs. So dieting alone can results in weight loss but when more muscle than body fat is lost as a consequent of crash dieting, the end consequent is not all that impressive.

I had a self-indulgent buddy who balloon up from 200 to 350. He ultimately went on some sort of weird diet and lost back down to 200. He looked terrible, loose skin, still fat and to make it all worse he was now a 'diet expert' and told me and anyone else within earshot how brainless they were to consequent any diet other than the one he had used. Of procedure he still couldn't catch a ball or walk up a flight of stairs without getting totally gassed.

Arthroscopic Knee Surgery:Are You A One-Dimensional Trainer?

At the other ultimate I knew a of course good long length runner who was thin as a rail, lived on carbs and eschewed lifting or protein. He became anemic and emaciated the blend of mega-miles and carbs and fruit in meager amounts produced a physique that resembled a famine victim. Lifting weights to his way of thinking would add muscle that he would have to haul around and would have the same impact as wearing a backpack with a 10 or 15-pound plate in it. Needless to say by the time he got to his mid-thirties he started experiencing the usual repetitive request for retrial injuries - knee arthroscopic surgery, ankle ligament damage, eternal shin-splints. He ultimately had to give up running altogether.

My third example is a previous national level powerlifter; a man who set regional records and grew gargantuan. ultimately he weighed 350 and was able to squat over 900-pounds. He ate everything in sight and had to quit lifting altogether when he developed terrible circulatory problems.

Each individual I referenced took one singular leg of the fitness triad and because of overemphasis turned the pursuance of their specialty into something opposite of fitness & health. Best to convention a wee of each leg of the triad instead of emphasizing one aspect to the exclusion of the other two. It makes excellent sense when we are presented with ultimate and positive examples.

Arthroscopic Knee Surgery:Are You A One-Dimensional Trainer?