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Article Title: Are You A One-Dimensional Trainer?
Author: Marty Gallagher
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Most people are classically biased toward one of the three legs
of the fitness triad: progressive resistance training,
cardiovascular training or diet/nutrition. How many folks try
and lose weight by dieting and dieting alone? A safe bet would
be a majority of individuals. Ever wonder why people who lose a
lot of bodyweight rapidly still look fat? It’s because they are
still fat.

When the human organism perceives starvation it reverts to a
primordial hardwiring that seeks to preserve body fat (the last
line of defense against starvation) at all costs. So dieting
alone can results in weight loss but when more muscle than body
fat is lost as a result of crash dieting, the end result is not
all that impressive.

I had a self-indulgent buddy who balloon up from 200 to 350. He
eventually went on some sort of weird diet and lost back down to
200. He looked terrible, loose skin, still fat and to make it
all worse he was now a 'diet expert' and told me and anyone
else within earshot how stupid they were to follow any diet
other than the one he had used. Of course he still couldn’t
catch a ball or walk up a flight of stairs without getting
totally gassed.

At the other extreme I knew a really good long distance runner
who was thin as a rail, lived on carbs and eschewed lifting or
protein. He became anemic and emaciated the combination of
mega-miles and carbs and fruit in meager amounts produced a
physique that resembled a famine victim. Lifting weights to his
way of thinking would add muscle that he would have to haul
around and would have the same impact as wearing a backpack
with a 10 or 15-pound plate in it. Needless to say by the time
he got to his mid-thirties he started experiencing the usual
repetitive motion injuries – knee arthroscopic surgery, ankle
ligament damage, eternal shin-splints. He eventually had to
give up running altogether.

My third example is a former national level powerlifter; a man
who set regional records and grew gargantuan. Eventually he
weighed 350 and was able to squat over 900-pounds. He ate
everything in sight and had to quit lifting altogether when he
developed terrible circulatory problems.

Each individual I referenced took one particular leg of the
fitness triad and because of overemphasis turned the pursuit of
their specialty into something opposite of fitness & health.
Better to practice a little of each leg of the triad instead of
emphasizing one aspect to the exclusion of the other two. It
makes perfect sense when we are presented with extreme and
obvious examples.


About The Author: Marty Gallagher is a former strength chat
columnist for washingtonpost.com. Marty has written for
publications such as Muscle Media, Muscle & Fitness, and
Powerlifting USA. His website, http://www.martygallagher.com,
assimilates years of accumulated knowledge from the athletic
elite and makes them accessible to the common person.
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