Google Goes to the Gym
March 8th 2007 10:23
The job of using weights to get in shape-the best long term way to get in and stay in shape- is not the intellectually easy road that some other fitness methods are. There are all those machines and there are all those exercises. The television and laptop seem to be oozing different pills and devices. Yet the two edged sword of technology is more at your service in this enterprise than it is the conduit for charlatans.
Here is a fact. You can point your browser to Google, type in any exercise for which you have a legitimate name, and see it performed in seconds. That includes machines and free weight exercises. You can watch that exercise over and over until you can do it without thinking. You can sit on your couch and undergo a training knowledge session which would have cost you a fortune in trainers,magazines, and books a few years ago. You can find a routine online and check out every movement mentioned in it and be able to perform them more efficiently sooner.
If you have been training for awhile you can use animations to check on your form. If you have been doing something wrong, you will be able to detect and fix it in a few seconds. If you are working with a trainer, you can prepare for a session by reviewing your regimen station by station on the net to see if you remembered what he/she taught you about technique.
Pretend he's got a dumbbell in his mouth.
Not only can you see what movements look like,but you can find a mass of information about approaches to training and the validity of assertions about the latest miracle diet drug with a click here and a click there. You can develop[ an expertise in any area of training in a few weeks. You may have read my post last week-Taurine or Bull- in which I investigated the amino acid Taurine and whether or not an energy drink was really dosing my body with its beneficial effects or not. That is power.
I also think that the wide open nature of the search universe allows you to challenge the conventional thinking on fitness. Really, it took me years to find a system of training that satisfied me that it was a well thought systematic approach that could really do a lot for me. I was doing it with magazines and books. The information I got in months you could print out in an hour or two.
...and you will receive.
Weight training is like anything else. It is as good as your knowledge. With Google etc you can be a knowledgeable person in so much less time. That means better results and in less time. You still gotta lift the weights though. Your servant, as always.
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