Choosing general weight training

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01 July, 2007

Choosing general weight training

Convenient weight training: Random training by weights, for the sake of toning a particular part of the body, is the most common form of weight training.

Lay folks perceive weight training as a sort of random lifting of dumbbells and barbells to strengthen a particular part of the body. Most people believe that without dumbbells or barbells strength is too hard to acquire. Such form of training is enjoyable to many because of the lack of complex planning strategy. Just go to the gym and start bumping iron!.

The disadvantage of convenient weight training is that it is a total waste of time. It does not accomplish any fruitful results. It could lead to deformation of the skeleton. It leaves the trainee with sense of hopelessness due to lack of progress in proportion to the effort put into it.

The most common deformities due to convenient weight training are: (1) hunch back due to flawed posture. A motivated person should never lift weights by mere convenience without planning. This lack of proper planning of balanced strengthening culminates, over the years, into a deformed upper thoracic vertebrae, and anteriorly displaced shoulder: concave clavicular-sternomaniburum line. (2) Cervical backward compensation of the hunch back: that the head has to move backward at the neck to balance the hunch back, otherwise, a constantly forward-leaning head would always lead to fatigued back muscles. (3) Frequent muscle injuries due to lack of balancing opponent muscles. Shoulder injuries, parascapular muscle injuries, cervical injuries, and low back injuries are few to mention. (4) The muscles trained by this scheme do not grow properly strength with respect to size, do not function properly when used in a concerting muscular action, and are prone to frequent injuries due to lack of opposition.

The advantages of convenient training are better observed when it accompanies other planned training as an individual remedies of weak muscle groups. For example, a person with noticeable weak forearms would resort to this scheme when he or she feels bored or off-season or after completion of an assigned plan. Other parts of the body that benefit from convenient training are the abdominal muscles and the back muscles. The abdominal muscles are of eminent effect on the entire breathing ability of an athlete and its random and convenient training makes the difference between success and failure. No well-planned strategy would take care of all muscle groups in a practical time regimen. Thus convenient training is best utilized by talented athletes to make difference over other athletes. The alternative bodybuilding scheme of hitting all muscle groups to achieve complete body is life-consuming.