Collected Fitness Wisdom #10

The body doesn’t function by isolating one muscle at a time, so why would you exercise differently than you move? Splitting the body up into muscle groups is unnecessary for almost every fitness goal. Using multi-muscle, compound movements is helpful for creating higher intensities (via more muscle involvement). And higher intensities will a) help stimulate muscle growth, as well as b) lead to greater caloric burn and higher resting metabolism.

~Kim Ball


As far as conditioning and cardio goes, you have to realize that the human body wasn't designed for repetitive steady state activity but rather short bursts with a wide variety of different movements. This is exactly what you do when you play most sports. When you pump away on a machine for 30 minutes you are fighting evolution.

~Jason Ferruggia


Diet, training and lifestyle are unquestionably important, but what’s more important than which specific nutrition or training plan you choose is whether you have the ability to put them into action consistently.

The MOTIVATION to ACT is the ultimate key to success.

~Tom Venuto


Our bodies are made in the small daily choices. It’s things like not having pop with the pizza. It’s things like one slice instead of two. And what do you call that? WILL POWER. If you don’t have will power to say no to the things that are keeping you from the body you want then you don’t want that body more than you want pizza. So go enjoy the pizza. It’s not wrong at all, it’s just the choice you made and if you are happy with the consequences of eating it then I say "God bless ya" for knowing what you truly want.

So you can’t ever have pizza? HELL NO!! That’s not what I am saying. What I am saying is that bodies are created when you say "no" to bad things more frequently than "yes". And when you say "yes" to empowering things more than you say "enggg, whatever".

~Ray Burton


Machines are eventually going to be obsolete in major gyms. That’s because while your body is built to use lots of muscles in lots of ways, most machines isolate single muscle groups and work them in a static up-and-down, forward-and-backward regime. They also provide the opportunity to take a load off, preserving precious calories that you might otherwise be burning.


~Patrick Murphy

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