Friday, January 22, 2021
  • Home
  • Deals
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
Bodybuilding, Fitness, CrossFit, Strongman and Powerlifting
  • Mr. OlympiaHOT
  • Workouts
    • All
    • Arms
    • Back
    • Cardio
    • Chest
    • Core
    • Legs
    • Workout Plans
    Calisthenics Training

    Calisthenics Training: A Beginner’s Guide

    Metcon Exercises and Workouts:

    Fun and Effective Metcon Exercises and Workouts for Big Guys

    Joe Weider Training Principles

    The 25 Best Joe Weider Training Principles and Methods

  • Nutrition
    • All
    • Essential Nutrients
    • Nutrition Tips
    Ronnie Coleman

    What Did Ronnie Coleman Eat in His Prime?

    Healthiest Ways To Eat Eggs

    Eggcellent Nutrition Tips: Healthiest Ways To Eat Eggs

    Break Through Keto Plateau

    How To Break Through Keto Plateau and Achieve New Fat Loss

  • Training
  • Exercises
    • All
    • Arms
    • Back
    • Chest
    • Core
    • Legs and Glutes
    • Shoulders
    Kroc Rows Vs Pendlay Rows

    Kroc Rows Vs. Pendlay Rows – Which One Is Best?

    Dumbbell Lying Pronation

    Dumbbell Lying Pronation Exercise Guide and Videos

    Side Delt Exercises

    Best Side Delt Exercises for Broader, More Powerful Shoulders

    Dumbbell Lying Rear Lateral Raise

    Dumbbell Lying Rear Lateral Raise Exercise Guide and Videos

    Long Head Triceps Exercises

    The Best Long Head Triceps Exercises for Thicker, Stronger Arms

    Dumbbell Lying Triceps Extension

    How To Do The Dumbbell Lying Triceps Extension

    Box Jump Exercise Guide

    Box Jump Exercise Guide – Muscles Worked, How-to, Tips, and Variations

    Dumbbell Iron Cross Exercise

    Dumbbell Iron Cross Exercise Guide and Videos

    Good Morning Exercise Guide

    Good Morning Exercise Guide – Muscles Worked, How-to, Tips, and Variations

  • Food FactsTrending
  • News
    • Deals
    • Videos
    • Bodybuilding
    • CrossFit
    • Powerlifting
    • Strongman
    • MMA
  • Reviews
    • All
    • Lifting Gear & Accessories
    • Supplements
    Pre Workouts Without Creatine

    12 Best Pre-Workouts Without Creatine For 2021

    Powerlifting Singlet

    Powerlifting Singlets: All You Need To Know (Reviewed)

    Best Workout Shoes

    16 Best Workout Shoes For Better Performance in 2021

    Trending Tags

    • Ample
    • pre-workout
    • Meal Replacement
    • Pre-Kaged
No Result
View All Result
Fitness Volt: Bodybuilding, Fitness, CrossFit, Strongman and Powerlifting
  • Mr. OlympiaHOT
  • Workouts
    • All
    • Arms
    • Back
    • Cardio
    • Chest
    • Core
    • Legs
    • Workout Plans
    Calisthenics Training

    Calisthenics Training: A Beginner’s Guide

    Metcon Exercises and Workouts:

    Fun and Effective Metcon Exercises and Workouts for Big Guys

    Joe Weider Training Principles

    The 25 Best Joe Weider Training Principles and Methods

  • Nutrition
    • All
    • Essential Nutrients
    • Nutrition Tips
    Ronnie Coleman

    What Did Ronnie Coleman Eat in His Prime?

    Healthiest Ways To Eat Eggs

    Eggcellent Nutrition Tips: Healthiest Ways To Eat Eggs

    Break Through Keto Plateau

    How To Break Through Keto Plateau and Achieve New Fat Loss

  • Training
  • Exercises
    • All
    • Arms
    • Back
    • Chest
    • Core
    • Legs and Glutes
    • Shoulders
    Kroc Rows Vs Pendlay Rows

    Kroc Rows Vs. Pendlay Rows – Which One Is Best?

    Dumbbell Lying Pronation

    Dumbbell Lying Pronation Exercise Guide and Videos

    Side Delt Exercises

    Best Side Delt Exercises for Broader, More Powerful Shoulders

    Dumbbell Lying Rear Lateral Raise

    Dumbbell Lying Rear Lateral Raise Exercise Guide and Videos

    Long Head Triceps Exercises

    The Best Long Head Triceps Exercises for Thicker, Stronger Arms

    Dumbbell Lying Triceps Extension

    How To Do The Dumbbell Lying Triceps Extension

    Box Jump Exercise Guide

    Box Jump Exercise Guide – Muscles Worked, How-to, Tips, and Variations

    Dumbbell Iron Cross Exercise

    Dumbbell Iron Cross Exercise Guide and Videos

    Good Morning Exercise Guide

    Good Morning Exercise Guide – Muscles Worked, How-to, Tips, and Variations

  • Food FactsTrending
  • News
    • Deals
    • Videos
    • Bodybuilding
    • CrossFit
    • Powerlifting
    • Strongman
    • MMA
  • Reviews
    • All
    • Lifting Gear & Accessories
    • Supplements
    Pre Workouts Without Creatine

    12 Best Pre-Workouts Without Creatine For 2021

    Powerlifting Singlet

    Powerlifting Singlets: All You Need To Know (Reviewed)

    Best Workout Shoes

    16 Best Workout Shoes For Better Performance in 2021

    Trending Tags

    • Ample
    • pre-workout
    • Meal Replacement
    • Pre-Kaged
No Result
View All Result
Bodybuilding, Fitness, CrossFit, Strongman and Powerlifting
No Result
View All Result
Home Training Training Exercises

Round 24: Good And Bad Fitness Trends

Justin RobertsonbyJustin Robertson
November 25, 2013
  • 12shares
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Flipboard
  • LinkedIn
  • WhatsApp
  • Telegram
  • Messenger

What current fitness trends do you see that are helping or hurting the average gym attendees results?

Colin: The fitness trend I’m seeing that’s hurting attendees results is gyms frowning upon serious weightlifting. I’m talking powerlifting and bodybuilder hardcore training. I’m not even talking just about Planet Fitness who I can’t stand. Though their “judgement free” zone that has a lunk alarm when people make too much noise or put forth serious enough effort to build muscle certainly tops the list. Even my own gym has been very disappointing lately.

I had noticed a great trend at my gym lately that it had been becoming a much more serious lifters gym. There is a growing crowd of regulars looking to lift hard and often. Then we got a notice the weight room was going to be closed for 4 days for changes. We were thinking great, they are putting in some better equipment for us, changing things up to fit our needs. What actually happened? Several machines were taken out, and the space was used to build a large wood floor, presumably for group fitness.

In gyms all across the nation people are being talked to or even kick out for dropping weights, grunting, basically “frightening” the average person. I’m not saying that screaming at the top of your lungs on every rep and literally tossing weights to go tumbling when done (something I’ve seen far too often) but seriously, how do you lightly set down 100 lb dumbbells after you’ve reached total exhaustion? I suppose it makes sense, gyms make their money on memberships so they need to gear towards what would appeal to the masses, but what appeals to the masses is not what’s best for results. There is a reason serious bodybuilding and powerlifting gyms are so hard to come by these days, but it’s still sad.

Dara: I would say the current trend that is hurting the average gym attendee is crossfit/p90x/insanity/other crazy workouts people do because they think they are hardcore. I say this for two main reasons: 1) most of the time it’s beginners or near beginners doing this type of workout because they have been wrongly led to believe it’s a short cut to fast results when in reality it should only be done by advanced exercisers looking for something different or increase intensity and 2) it’s feeding into the pervasive idea that you need to workout like a maniac in order to get results, which causes many would-be moderate, health focused exercisers to either push too hard and get injured, or to shy away from exercise all together because they are led to believe if they aren’t dying in a pool of their own sweat by the end of the workout and not able to walk properly for a week afterwards that their workout didn’t work.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – everyone needs to build a foundation first and then increase intensity gradually, focusing on goal oriented exercises that will achieve your desired results safely with a minimum amount of risk on injury. Translation? If part of the reason (or the entire reason) you are doing a specific exercise is because you want people to notice you because it’s so “crazy” or “hardcore” it’s likely stupid and you are at high risk of injury.

Matt: I’m with Dara 100% on this one. I see so many inexperienced trainees doing things like kettlebell swings and hanging cleans and it just looks like a serious injury waiting to happen. There is so much low back swinging going on it’s crazy. Then when those performing this style of training literally limp out of the gym they think to themselves, ‘I really killed it today!’, when in reality they caused so much joint inflammation from improper lifting that they are in pain (joint pain, not muscle pain). Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not knocking crossfit, but it is for the advanced athlete, not the beginner.

Secondly, and I see this way too often for my own comfort, due to training being so mainstream now there are a very large faction of what I call McTrainers. Everyone has a trainer and this means trainers are in demand and the quality of their work has hit bottom I’m afraid. I actually heard a trainer instruct his client to round his back at the bottom of a barbell row and then heave the weight up and hyperextend his back at the top. He actually used the word hyperextend your low back, like it was a good thing. It took all I had to not make an example of this guy in front of a crowded gym but that’s not my style so I moved on.

There are a great many amazing trainers, but there are even more terrible ones. If you are looking for a trainer, don’t be afraid to try a few different ones or ask the gym who their top trainers are. Most gyms just give you to the newest (and least paid, thereby maximizing the gyms profit) trainer. While that sometimes can be someone who knows their stuff, more often than not it’s someone looking to make some fast money in a new career they just jumped into.

On the plus side of things I see that the HIIT and circuit training crowd is slowly growing and the number of people spending hours on the treadmill is dropping. The message is finally being received that lifting weights and doing sprints is the recipe for a lean body and not a crash diet combined with endless hours of soul sucking cardio.

Round 1: The best fat loss method

Round 2: Fasted vs fed cardio for fat loss

Round 3: Fat loss and muscle-building supplements

Round 4: Nutrient timing/meal frequency for fat loss/muscle-building

Round 5: The best 3 exercises

Round 6: The ideal training program

Round 7: How much protein for fat loss

Round 8: The last 10 pounds

Round 9: The ultimate training split

Round 10: Do carbs or fats make you fat?

Round 11: Is it better to lose fat or build muscle first?

Round 12: Low reps or high reps for maximum muscle mass?

Round 13: Muscle-building strategy: bulk-up or lean gain?

Round 14: Is training to failure necessary to build muscle mass?

Round 15: Are cheat meals good or bad?

Round 16: The fastest way to get six pack abs?

Round 17: The most effective exercise sequence

Round 18: Is cardio necessary?

Round 19: IIFYM vs clean eating

Round 20: Newbie mistakes and advice

Round 21: The most important muscle

Round 22: Is core training necessary?

Round 23: The best exercises to build a strong ripped midsection

For the latest news and updates please follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
  • 12shares
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Flipboard
  • LinkedIn
  • WhatsApp
  • Telegram
  • Messenger

Join our list

Subscribe to our mailing list and get interesting stuff and updates to your email inbox.

Thank you for subscribing.

Something went wrong.

We respect your privacy and take protecting it seriously

Categories: Training Exercises
Tags: Training Exercises
Previous Post

Muscle Activity From Pulldowns And Pull Ups

Next Post

Round 25: The Best Arm Building Exercises

Justin Robertson

Justin Robertson

Related Posts

The Bench Press Vs The Dumbbell Fly
Muscle-Building

The Bench Press Vs The Dumbbell Fly

Dips vs Bench Press
Chest

Dips Vs Bench Press: The Best Chest Building Exercise

Traditional Vs Sumo Deadlift
Muscle-Building

Traditional Vs Sumo Deadlift, Which Type is Best For You?

Front Squat vs. Back Squat
Legs

Back Squats Or Front Squats: Which Builds More Muscle And Strength?

All Rep Ranges: Perfect Muscle Building Routine
Muscle-Building

All Rep Ranges: Perfect Muscle Building Routine

Dumbbells, Barbells Or Smith Machines
Muscle-Building

Dumbbells, Barbells Or Smith Machines For Maximum Muscle?

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Joe Weider Training Principles

The 25 Best Joe Weider Training Principles and Methods

Ronnie Coleman

What Did Ronnie Coleman Eat in His Prime?

Blessing Awodibu

Blessing Awodibu Is A Shredded 287lb As He Begins Prep For Pro Debut

Natural Bodybuilding

6 Obvious Signs of a Natural Bodybuilder

Kevin Levrone

Kevin Levrone Moves Serious Weight With 12 Reps Of 315lb Behind-The-Neck Press

Julius Maddox 1

Julius Maddox Does 750lb Bench Press With Ease, Looks Superhuman

Calisthenics Training

Calisthenics Training: A Beginner’s Guide

Recent Reviews

Pre Workouts Without Creatine

12 Best Pre-Workouts Without Creatine For 2021

Powerlifting Singlet

Powerlifting Singlets: All You Need To Know (Reviewed)

Best Workout Shoes

16 Best Workout Shoes For Better Performance in 2021

Fitness Volt

At FitnessVolt.com our mission is to educate and inform you about the latest in professional bodybuilding, fitness, and sports-related content. We believe you should have the best information at your fingertips to help you reach your fitness goals and to stay up to date on everything happening in the bodybuilding, fitness and strength sports industry... Read more.

Email: sm(at)fitnessvolt.com

Disclosure: FitnessVolt.com has an affiliate relationship with different brands and is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. However, our reviews are based on well research backed analysis.
FitnessVolt.com - 1700 Lincoln St. Denver, CO. 

Follow Us

Trending Topics

  • Mr. Olympia 2020
  • Bodybuilding
  • Strongman
  • Powerlifting
  • CrossFit
  • At Home Workouts
  • Bodyweight Exercises
  • Best Pre-workouts
  • Boost Testosterone
  • German Volume Training
  • Protein-Packed Foods
  • Jefferson Deadlift
  • What Is Hypertrophy

Calculators

    • IF Calculator
    • TDEE Calculator
    • Calorie Calculator
    • Keto Calculator
    • RMR Calculator
    • Macronutrient Calculator
    • Creatine Calculator
    • Wilks Calculator
    • EER Calculator
    • FFMI Calculator
    • IBW Calculator
    • LBM Calculator
    • Fat Intake Calculator

 

  • Food Nutrition Analysis
  • Carb Cycling Calculator
  • Weight Gain Calculator
  • Calories Burned Calculator
  • Strength Standards
  • One Rep Max Calculator
  • Body Fat Calculator
  • EER Calculator
  • Weight Loss Percentage
  • Treadmill Calorie Calculator
  • Body Surface Area Calculator
  • Running Pace Calculator
  • Bench Press Calculator
  • Protein Calculator
  • Water Intake Calculator
  • About
  • Write For Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Syndication
  • Scholarship
  • Sitemap
  • DMCA
  • Copyrights
  • Terms
  • Privacy

© Copyright 2010 - 2021 Fitnes Volt IBC. All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Mr. Olympia
  • Bodybuilding
  • Powerlifting
  • Strongman
  • CrossFit
  • Workouts
  • Exercise Guides
    • Arms
    • Back
    • Chest
    • Core
    • Legs and Glutes
    • Shoulders
  • Training
  • Nutrition
  • Reviews
  • More
    • Diet
    • News
    • Motivation
    • Videos
    • Food Facts
    • Deals
    • Fitness Calculator

© Copyright 2010 - 2021 Fitnes Volt IBC. All Rights Reserved.

21344