Say Hi to the New Kid(and Be Nice)
January 26th 2007 05:30
I would like to take the opportunity today to welcome The Health Fanatic
to our blog community. I recommend that No Myth Fitness readers give the newest kid on the block a look every day. Here is why. The relationship between wanting to be in shape and wanting to be healthy is so close that they are indistinguishable.I can't tell you how many times I have discovered something in a bodybuilding magazine about fat loss, diet, supplements etc.only to see articles touting it in the wider press months later. I read several health newsletters as well and countless are the times that articles there have seconded things I originally read in a bodybuilding magazine. Many forty years of interest in fitness has yielded a ton of things that were meant to promote fitness and promoted health as a side effect.(I know, priorities a little screwy, but benefits just the same.)
The reason is clear. Bodybuilders are obsessed with the very kind of things in which the general public is less passionately interested, but interested. Take fat loss. Bodybuilders are not satisfied with anything less that a body fat percentage rate in single digits. They will do what it takes to get to that level. Professional bodybuilders paved the way in integrating fat loss with muscle maintenance by using diets which were Atkinsesque before Atkins came along. Great fitness heroes like Jack Lalane always -40 years ago-sought to associate right eating, right living, exercise, and health.
In the confusing world of food supplements bodybuilders in their obsessiveness have unlocked a whole number of items which now serve the public health at large. Whey protein was an unwanted product of dairy farming dumped to rot in the fields decades ago, but its viability for humans was pioneered by supplement companies seeking the bodybuilding market. Now whey protein is recognized as a valuable component of a health promoting diet. A doctor-letter publisher I read recommends creatine now as a part of his patients' dietary regimen. How did he learn of creatine? Medical school? Maybe. More likely from the bodybuilding community, where its ability to increase strength and add to training volume have made it so common. The doctor discovered that it had general health benefits as well.
Yes, there is also a relationship between bodybuilding's obsession with muscle definition and the cultivation of a sensible diet. You cannot eat fattening junk and get where they want to go("ripped to the bone" that is). We who would like some of bodybuilders' definition are well served in terms of general health if we pursue muscle definition in this way.
I'll get off this kick with one final example. I've read over and over that fat around the middle and a belly bigger that your chest is a death warrant.It is the essence of an unpleasing aesthetic too, isn't it? Yet, intense weight training and serious dieting are a sure fire way to have a chest girth 5,10,or 15 inches greater than that of the waist. In short you can care obsessively about the way you look and by pursuing aesthetics get health benefits galore . Vice versa works too. That's why I recommend giving Claire over at healthfanatic a good look.Your servant, as always.
Be nice and read the new kid's blog.
The reason is clear. Bodybuilders are obsessed with the very kind of things in which the general public is less passionately interested, but interested. Take fat loss. Bodybuilders are not satisfied with anything less that a body fat percentage rate in single digits. They will do what it takes to get to that level. Professional bodybuilders paved the way in integrating fat loss with muscle maintenance by using diets which were Atkinsesque before Atkins came along. Great fitness heroes like Jack Lalane always -40 years ago-sought to associate right eating, right living, exercise, and health.
In the confusing world of food supplements bodybuilders in their obsessiveness have unlocked a whole number of items which now serve the public health at large. Whey protein was an unwanted product of dairy farming dumped to rot in the fields decades ago, but its viability for humans was pioneered by supplement companies seeking the bodybuilding market. Now whey protein is recognized as a valuable component of a health promoting diet. A doctor-letter publisher I read recommends creatine now as a part of his patients' dietary regimen. How did he learn of creatine? Medical school? Maybe. More likely from the bodybuilding community, where its ability to increase strength and add to training volume have made it so common. The doctor discovered that it had general health benefits as well.
Yes, there is also a relationship between bodybuilding's obsession with muscle definition and the cultivation of a sensible diet. You cannot eat fattening junk and get where they want to go("ripped to the bone" that is). We who would like some of bodybuilders' definition are well served in terms of general health if we pursue muscle definition in this way.
I'll get off this kick with one final example. I've read over and over that fat around the middle and a belly bigger that your chest is a death warrant.It is the essence of an unpleasing aesthetic too, isn't it? Yet, intense weight training and serious dieting are a sure fire way to have a chest girth 5,10,or 15 inches greater than that of the waist. In short you can care obsessively about the way you look and by pursuing aesthetics get health benefits galore . Vice versa works too. That's why I recommend giving Claire over at healthfanatic a good look.Your servant, as always.
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Comment by Claire S
Make sure to fix your link, when I clicked on it it didn't work.
Again, thanks so much!