He told me he doesn't even like the barbell....

Usually I would try to find articles written by people that are experts with decades of experience that I have a tremendous amount of  respect for…but most people aren’t familiar with them because the idea of working hard to achieve goals isn’t really thought highly of in today’s fitness industry and their concepts and training methods are kept out of mainstream fitness journalism.

So I did a google search- “Train like an athlete…”

I just randomly clicked on a few of the links from the first page.  They are mostly from resources I would never consider reading for any type of serious advice, but I was surprised about what I found.  None of the sites really offer any actual training program to follow, and some of the exercise recommendations are a tad silly to be considered for a highly effective program, BUT the overall picture is what I’m getting at.

A Dating website

A site with the title “Hot Body Training”

Something from “Squidoo”

“World’s Toughest Workouts”

Some of you train for performance, but a lot of it is aesthetics.   What a lot of people do not understand is that if you train for performance and base your goals around improving physical abilities- then all those visual goals you have become a product of your increased work capacity.

If you have any doubt, look at athletes in almost any sport.  An NFL running back, an Olympic 400m sprinter, a college basketball player, etc. etc. etc.  I can guarantee their progress isn’t measured by how big their arms look in the mirror after blasting those biceps with hammer curls, preacher curls, straight bar curls, reverse curls, and do not forget the behind the back wrist curls.

Forget about the mirrors, forget about the scale, and focus on how you are progressing with your physical ability.  Did you Squat more this week than you did two weeks ago?  Can you run faster? Jump Higher?  Do more pull ups? DO A PULL UP?  This is how you measure your progress.

Do your own research.   Let me know what you find out.  Thoughts?  Post to comments.

–Kane

“Nobody ever drown in sweat.”

-Unknown