The way
some people look at fitness or certain fitness methods is pretty funny
sometimes. You ask someone who doesn’t like weights and you might hear this
(especially from women) “Ugh, anything but weights, they’ll make you bulky and
you will just get injured.” Weights aren’t always as bad as you think. Some
people prefer other things which are awesome. But it’s not just weights but
many methods that this type of thinking or similar thinking comes around. Some
can say something similar to other methods like say bodyweight exercise “Shit,
anything but bodyweight stuff, that’s just endurance work and strength isn’t
much of a factor.” I’m sorry but I got to laugh at that shit that just tells
you, they have no clue what they’re talking about.
There are
people who are so harsh about certain methods that most of the time, they don’t
realize it’s most likely something they might enjoy. I have even read somewhere
that someone was so harsh on Animal Training it just made me want to slap them.
Just because you read a marketing ad and think it’s bullshit without ever
stepping foot into the program, that just makes you dumb and ignorant. People
can say whatever they want but until you actually have done it, don’t be so harsh.
I have trashed some methods before but that was because just what it looked
like it just didn’t seem appealing. People who can’t stand certain methods try
to dismember and trash it to the point where it takes away what fun it could be
for someone else. Granted there are programs that are a complete joke like the
Shake Weight or Hip Hop Abs (its aerobics done in a different form) but if
someone likes them and it works for them, cool I’m not going to take that away
from you.
There are
plenty of people out there who try to advise you on what method works and what
doesn’t and will tell more negative stuff than the positive. Granted certain
people I’ve been around have told me to stop what I’m already doing and do this
other thing so I can look even better and help me in other areas, these same
people have no real clue what I do and only have seen a glimpse of it. People
will tell you can do this but never do that because of whatever reasons; common
injuries, death, it didn’t work for them so why should it work for you and a
favorite of mine; that’s pretty dumb and you look like an idiot doing it, well
thank you. You have a choice and no matter what you choose there are pros and
cons in all of them, but if it works right for you, that’s all that matters,
screw the others.
Want to
know something really funny; I’ve done methods that are fun but to others it’s
ugly and gnarly because it’s different and they don’t understand it. Most
people that don’t understand will turn it into something that it really isn’t.
There are some people that a friend of mine likes to call Wile E Coyotes, they’re
the type of people who are obsessed with those that have programs that work for
them and try to tarnish and ridicule them because not only does it not work for
that person they try to destroy others for it. Most of these types of people
are just keyboard ego maniacs who don’t have a clue what real training is.
If you love
what you do, hold on to and guard it with your life. If you’re good at it, help
people find out about it but don’t preach the negatives, teach them by
suggesting it and helping them find out about it. There are a lot of people who
have methods that work but also try to destroy other ones so they can keep
getting the bucks. We all need to make a living I get that but being an asshole
doesn’t always work out so well. You can brag that whatever works for you will
work for the rest of the population and beat down other methods just so you can
be the top dog but in the end, every method is a suggestion from the endless
variety that you can choose from.
I take
different methods and find the best ones by taking little pieces of them and
mold them into something awesome for myself, it’s like creating your own
puzzle, and you find the pieces that go with the picture in your mind and
putting those pieces together.
Be awesome my friends.
