Going to the gym can be fun, exciting and learn a few things
about fitness but most people don’t have time for it or since gyms these days
don’t have real world-class training and instruction for lifelong health and
fitness it’s better you find alternatives. There are those who also don’t have
much money since the economy has become a bit of a downward spiral what can one
do to get fit? I’m a fan of old school bodybuilding and I’m talking about long
before the Arnolds and the Lou Ferrignos, I’m talking of guys like Bill Pearl,
John Grimek, Reg Park, Otto Arco, Maxick and the likes.
There have been decade(s) long debates about building muscle
and how to acquire it, some say you need to lift weights, some say do
bodyweight exercises and others have certain things in between. I feel from my
own experience you don’t need a gym to get in awesome shape and certainly don’t
need weights to build muscle. One of my all-time favorite methods is what’s
called VRT or Visualized Resistance Training. This is a system where you mimic
lifting a heavy weight using the mind/muscle connection and use tension to move
through the exercise. This is another look at Muscle Control, being able to
move individual muscles however you want. In bodybuilding today and yesteryear
this is a look at posing.
Using your own tension and resistance creates blood in your
body hence forth the pump you get from an exercise. Think of a curl that
targets the biceps, you do a certain amount of reps and blood rushes to the
muscles and builds a pump, you can do the same exact thing without ever lifting
a weight. You can create any exercise you want with this program, you can
visualize lifting a car or pulling on the toughest of cables. It’s all about
using your imagination while flexing the muscles in a dynamic movement. This is
effective because not only does it build muscle but it protects the joints and
can give you a bit of a cardio workout from breathing hard after doing an
exercise.
This was created by one of the most underrated Physical
Culturists of our time named Greg Mangan who discovered the way to a better
alternative from weightlifting. Not saying weights are bad this is just another
option you can use to get a quick workout in anytime, anywhere. Infusing the
mind/muscle connection is the key ingredient to this program and Greg will show
you how that works. In his course he even states you don’t have to do the
routine layed out for you, you can create any type of routine you want. I once
tried some bodybuilding programs from the champions in Joe Weider’s Ultimate
Bodybuilding book and they wiped me out and I didn’t have to switch stations,
just stand or sit where you are and have at it.
Muscle Control is one of the coolest and mot effective ways
to build muscle and did you know that when Arnold was winning his 7 Olympia
titles, he would stop lifting 6 weeks before contest to work on his posing to
build that definition and symmetry and it worked, that’s another look at Muscle
Control, forget the steroids and all that crap this was done back in the early
20th century, Sandow did the same thing and one of the greatest
artists of MC was a man named Maxick who looked like he was carved from
granite. Lifting weights is fun to do I get that and whenever I do hit the gym
once in a blue moon I want to hammer out as much as I can get my hands on but
at the same time it does get expensive and gym memberships are crazy expensive
and only less than 5% of those who do go to the gym actually do it the other
95% quit after a while because they get burned out and are tired of driving,
changing and god forbid wait for some douche to get off his set so you can do
your thing.
You have a choice and you have more options than you realize. Don’t
get frustrated trying to get fit, find alternatives that suit your lifestyle,
this could be one of them and you don’t need to do 2 hours of training for this
to be effective, 20 minutes a day is really all you need and if you don’t have
that amount of time, start with just a minute and work your way up. Make it
happen for you.
