For years now, I've been a Dragon Ball fan of the Saga. It's really the only anime I like that didn't include Street Fighter as a kid. Similar story to Superman with a twist and has Martial Arts, powerful warriors, rivals, match-ups, foes become friends, Vegeta always wanted to be ahead of Goku but never really does and the training clips are just bad ass especially in the Gravity Chamber. It's one of the inspirations for my own training and finding some cool things to try out.
One of the cool aspects of the Shows is the transformations guys like Goku and Vegeta go through to become more powerful than usual. The levels of Super Saiyan are just an awesome blend of animation and the fighting internally they go through to achieve their transformations and making them effortless later on. It's a way of looking at strength progressions in fitness, there are several layers and as you get stronger, there's always another layer coming your way to push through.
Yeah it's corny and has some off the wall characters (Master Roshi anyone) along with situations that may not be suitable for even today's generation unless you watch the uncensored versions. The fact remains, with each transformations the Saiyans generate, it's a progression that at first takes a lot out of them and as they master them, they become effortless and doesn't take on a ton of energy or in their case strength. With each time you master a weight or a certain exercise, you would progress to a heavier weight or version of an exercise that's harder in order to become your strongest.
Yeah it's a cartoon and we can't look exactly look like Goku or even withstand a Gravity Chamber that goes up to 400x the gravity of earth (if you were to calculate that, it be walking into a room and you weighing hundreds of times your bodyweight) but we can build strength and muscle using things like weighted vests to do our bodyweight exercises or do exercises with greater control and slower. Guys like Matt Schifferle & The Bioneer are awesome at teaching progressions in order for someone to build their strength on and guys like Brooks Kubik utilizing old school weight training and bodyweight exercise to build a great deal of muscle using progressions on a consistent basis.
Although Goku & Vegeta have completely different views on life and progressive training, they still become stronger in their own way and format different purposes. That's what it's like in the real world where you can progress in your own way but still reach levels of strength beyond belief. Now what they do is obviously exaggerated and very fictional but it doesn't take away the fact that it is possible to build strength and muscle with the right tools and training programs. Many struggle especially with the consistency and discipline but it's not impossible. Like a transformation, you can also transform your level of strength and physique. The old time strongmen who were no more than on average 165-190 lbs were some of the most muscular people on the planet yet had strength that baffles by even today's standards. It's incredible what you can achieve when you give yourself the time and dedication.
Look past some of the silliness and dialogue and understand what some of these guys do in that Saga that gives them abilities that just seem to go higher and higher each time. When you thought one of the transformations made them crazy powerful, another one comes along and just becomes even more mind boggling. Even the transformations become God-like later on; you can have some crazy strength as well (without the need of steroids of course) and harness the ability to find out what the body is truly capable of. Of course I believe in safety and doing things without getting injured as much as possible but we are capable of things we didn't think were possible. In a weird way, we have a bit of Super Saiyan strength where each progression is another step to being the strongest we can be as a individual.
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