Bodybuilding and Where It's Going

     Bodybuilding has always interested me. It was amazing to me that you can change the way your body looked so drastically. A solid physical thing that can be transformed. And how is that done on the most basic level? With energy. If you want to gain muscle you must eat enough energy (calories) to grow. The second part is you must put your muscles in a resistant environment for them to grow. But you need the energy to do it first. That's the transformation you can see. All of the body's systems can be transformed with the proper training, especially the nervous system.

     True bodybuilding strengthens the nervous system. Old school bodybuilders knew that. Schwarzenegger knew it. People think he was so extreme going into the woods and training barefoot. It wasn't that he was so extreme, it was because he knew training barefoot trained the nervous system correctly. He even trained barefoot in the gym. Sneakers interfere with proper alignment of the feet and they are an artificial barrier between body and earth. They prevent the proper signals being sent to the brain during heavy training. There are plenty of other forgotten techniques to properly train the nervous system that dramatically boosts strength, just with weightlifting alone, not to mention Qigong and Neigong. One is to train blindfolded, specifically during squats and deadlifts.

     Where is bodybuilding going? It's going back to the healthy sport it once was in the 30's and 40's. At the same time, records will be broken as far as size goes because there are so many advancements in recovery strategies now with food, herbs and yes...drugs. That's fine with me, as long as it's not trying to be passed off as something healthy, because it's not.

     There is no one way of training that will do it all, not yoga, not weightlifting, not running, not walking. The western and eastern philosophies of exercise are coming together everywhere. The most advanced athletes are Martial Artists and Mixed Martial Artists because they incorporate almost every type of training. They build up the inside of their bodies and the outside. That's how this whole functional craze came about. It's nothing new. Gymnasts have always been doing functional training. People on a larger scale are just catching on and switching their focus again. People are realizing what systems are limited, they have been implemented long enough to know what works and what doesn't. Most people will see past the imaginary barriers and start to train as a whole no matter what their age or goal, some just may go to extremes more than others. Everyone needs to build their strength, their nervous system, gain some muscle and lose excess fat just as a basic foundation for health reasons, then add to that nutrition and alignment with the spirit. From there they should take their training in whatever direction they want whether it's more extreme or just to maintain.

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