By Coach Eddie Lomax
Believing the secret to fitness success is the combination of bodybuilding training and marathoner training is a fitness fallacy responsible for countless failures.
When you decide to participate in physical training with the desire to get fit, improve health and develop an attractive physique, you often start by looking at the extremes. The two most popular extremes to look at are bodybuilding and marathon running.
Now, since most people donot want to really be a bodybuilder or marathoner, they don't want to model their physical training exactly after these two groups. So, the "logic" of the fitness fallacy goes something like this...
"I want to change the way my body looks,
so I'll do what bodybuilders do... just less of it."
Or...
"I want to improve endurance and burn fat,
so I'll do what marathoners do... just less of it."
Ultimately leading to the biggest fitness fallacy of all...
"If I do what bodybuilders and marathoners do,
just less of it... I'll be fit."
At first glance, the fitness fallacy seems to make sense.
If you combine less of what the two extremes are doing, your results should be somewhere in the middle, simultaneously improving body composition and cardiorespiratory endurance. Sorry to be the one to tell you, this fitness fallacy is not the secret to the fitness, health and physique most physical training practitioners seek.
Never has been and never will be.
And according to my definition of physical fitness, combining bodybuilding (muscle building) training and marathoner (extended aerobic) training will never lead to a high level of fitness, long lasting health or the body you have always wanted.
If your goal is to be a bodybuilder... train like a bodybuilder.
If your goal is to be a marathon runner... train like marathoner.
But if your goal is to increase your level of fitness, improve health and develop your best body, you need a program designed to achieve these goals. Unfortunately, most of the popular fitness programs in existence are derived from the bodybuilder-marathoner fitness fallacy. But, combining these two physical training methods and doing less of them than originally intended has never produced any long lasting fitness, health and physique benefits.
Bodybuilders are still successful with their programs.
Marathoners are still successful with their programs.
Is doing what they do better than doing nothing? Definitely.
Will you see some initial gains and improvements? Sure.
Is this combination the secret to long lasting fitness, health and an attractive physique? Nope.
Don't fall prey to the Bodybuilding-Marathoner Fitness Fallacy. Doing less of two extremes will not give you the balance you need to develop the results you seek. Look for workout programs that are balanced and strive to improve a wide variety of physical abilities needed to face the challenges of sport, work and life.
Avoid the fitness fallacy and focus on programs and products that enable you to become a better, over-all human being, and not the unbalanced mixture of two extremes.
Ready To Get Fit?
Coach Lomax Products | Coach Lomax Recommendations
<-- BACK TO SUCCESSFUL PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM
<-- BACK TO OPTIMUM FITNESS NETWORK
