Why lift weights?
Many years ago in a Colorado gym I was excited to try out the
greatest invention in weight training since the dumb bell or
was it?
Arthur Jones was the mad scientist behind this creation and it
did exactly as its creator designed it to do – put maximum
stress on individual muscle groups.
We thought the nautilus machine was the pinnacle of the fitness
world and with it we would develop anatomically perfect bodies
unlike anything previously seen.
This was the beginning of high intensity training.
And this physique was going to be this way because Jones had
devised the perfect torture devices with cams and chains that
loaded the weight progressively to put the most strain on the
muscle at every position – no cheating or easy strokes – all
pain directed at ever muscle fiber from tendon to tendon.
We loved it, nothing compared to a nautilus workout, and we
would laugh and joke about how we couldn’t stand up straight
the next day. Still to this day think it’s a near perfect
design. It blows out the muscle from start to finish at high
speed and, if you can take it, sprouts huge muscle growth.
So you may ask “Dr. Wu, why then do you no longer train with
weights? Is this a bad thing?”
The truth is on occasion I will pick up some weights or a
friend will convince me to try the latest new weight training
machine or fitness device. Well into my sixties, I’m not afraid
I’m going to hurt myself or do serious damage because my
foundation is in the Non-linier power movements of Qi Gong. It
is my Qi Gong that allows me to take on this extra effort.
Now that may sound strange to some. How can training without
weights enable you to train at an even deeper level with
weights?
Well for evidence of this I need only point to some of the
Russian Olympic power lifters. These dudes spent more time off
the weights then on them and took home plenty of gold over the
last half century to prove their methods as practical.
The movements of body weight training are clean because you are
the weight.
We are talking about building Strength, Speed, and Power, not
just muscle mass.
When you focus entirely on weight training you are no longer
the center, muscles are then enslaved to linear movements and
develop abnormal patterns of movement.
What I mean by this is that you will never move your body the
way you do when you are strapped into to a weight machine
unless you ARE strapped into a weight machine.
Life comes in wobbles and jolts, circles and twists, pops and
drops. There isn’t a single sport that mimics the movements of
weight lifting other than weight lifting.
So when you build muscles in these linear movements you create
muscle competency in straight lines only. Then when you go out
in the real world blam you get side swiped with the reality of
life in dynamic flow not straight lines.
Injury will result.
Generally speaking as a healer, the bigger the muscle and the
more it is trained into these straight lines the bigger the
injury is going to be.
That’s right I said it, the bigger the weight trained muscle –
the bigger the injury will be.
The weight training isn’t bad it just doesn’t train all the
potential pathways your body can and will take. You end up
lopsided. Instead of being protected by the strong muscles you
worked so hard to create you accentuate the weaknesses in
movement you didn’t train.
That power from your muscle can easily be driven off course and
twisted into a serious injury.
Let me state for the record, I’m not against weights. I just
suggest that if you do train with weights you want to build
upon a strong connection to your body.
Real strength is the connection between the mind and the muscle.
The best way to build the Body-Mind is moving meditation.
Qi Gong the way I teach it is Moving Meditation.
Once you unify the mind, breathing, and body nothing can stop
you.
My students that have had completed 21 days of the Recharging
Qi Gong http://rechargingqigong.com know what I am talking
about.
I hope you will take a leap, join the fun and find out for
yourself how to tap into the vital Qi force sleeping inside you!
Wishing you the best in Health, Wealth and Happiness, (and
strength)
Many years ago in a Colorado gym I was excited to try out the
greatest invention in weight training since the dumb bell or
was it?
Arthur Jones was the mad scientist behind this creation and it
did exactly as its creator designed it to do – put maximum
stress on individual muscle groups.
We thought the nautilus machine was the pinnacle of the fitness
world and with it we would develop anatomically perfect bodies
unlike anything previously seen.
This was the beginning of high intensity training.
And this physique was going to be this way because Jones had
devised the perfect torture devices with cams and chains that
loaded the weight progressively to put the most strain on the
muscle at every position – no cheating or easy strokes – all
pain directed at ever muscle fiber from tendon to tendon.
We loved it, nothing compared to a nautilus workout, and we
would laugh and joke about how we couldn’t stand up straight
the next day. Still to this day think it’s a near perfect
design. It blows out the muscle from start to finish at high
speed and, if you can take it, sprouts huge muscle growth.
So you may ask “Dr. Wu, why then do you no longer train with
weights? Is this a bad thing?”
The truth is on occasion I will pick up some weights or a
friend will convince me to try the latest new weight training
machine or fitness device. Well into my sixties, I’m not afraid
I’m going to hurt myself or do serious damage because my
foundation is in the Non-linier power movements of Qi Gong. It
is my Qi Gong that allows me to take on this extra effort.
Now that may sound strange to some. How can training without
weights enable you to train at an even deeper level with
weights?
Well for evidence of this I need only point to some of the
Russian Olympic power lifters. These dudes spent more time off
the weights then on them and took home plenty of gold over the
last half century to prove their methods as practical.
The movements of body weight training are clean because you are
the weight.
We are talking about building Strength, Speed, and Power, not
just muscle mass.
When you focus entirely on weight training you are no longer
the center, muscles are then enslaved to linear movements and
develop abnormal patterns of movement.
What I mean by this is that you will never move your body the
way you do when you are strapped into to a weight machine
unless you ARE strapped into a weight machine.
Life comes in wobbles and jolts, circles and twists, pops and
drops. There isn’t a single sport that mimics the movements of
weight lifting other than weight lifting.
So when you build muscles in these linear movements you create
muscle competency in straight lines only. Then when you go out
in the real world blam you get side swiped with the reality of
life in dynamic flow not straight lines.
Injury will result.
Generally speaking as a healer, the bigger the muscle and the
more it is trained into these straight lines the bigger the
injury is going to be.
That’s right I said it, the bigger the weight trained muscle –
the bigger the injury will be.
The weight training isn’t bad it just doesn’t train all the
potential pathways your body can and will take. You end up
lopsided. Instead of being protected by the strong muscles you
worked so hard to create you accentuate the weaknesses in
movement you didn’t train.
That power from your muscle can easily be driven off course and
twisted into a serious injury.
Let me state for the record, I’m not against weights. I just
suggest that if you do train with weights you want to build
upon a strong connection to your body.
Real strength is the connection between the mind and the muscle.
The best way to build the Body-Mind is moving meditation.
Qi Gong the way I teach it is Moving Meditation.
Once you unify the mind, breathing, and body nothing can stop
you.
My students that have had completed 21 days of the Recharging
Qi Gong http://rechargingqigong.com know what I am talking
about.
I hope you will take a leap, join the fun and find out for
yourself how to tap into the vital Qi force sleeping inside you!
Wishing you the best in Health, Wealth and Happiness, (and
strength)
Many years ago in a Colorado gym I was excited to try out the
greatest invention in weight training since the dumb bell or
was it?
Arthur Jones was the mad scientist behind this creation and it
did exactly as its creator designed it to do – put maximum
stress on individual muscle groups.
We thought the nautilus machine was the pinnacle of the fitness
world and with it we would develop anatomically perfect bodies
unlike anything previously seen.
This was the beginning of high intensity training.
And this physique was going to be this way because Jones had
devised the perfect torture devices with cams and chains that
loaded the weight progressively to put the most strain on the
muscle at every position – no cheating or easy strokes – all
pain directed at ever muscle fiber from tendon to tendon.
We loved it, nothing compared to a nautilus workout, and we
would laugh and joke about how we couldn’t stand up straight
the next day. Still to this day think it’s a near perfect
design. It blows out the muscle from start to finish at high
speed and, if you can take it, sprouts huge muscle growth.
So you may ask “Dr. Wu, why then do you no longer train with
weights? Is this a bad thing?”
The truth is on occasion I will pick up some weights or a
friend will convince me to try the latest new weight training
machine or fitness device. Well into my sixties, I’m not afraid
I’m going to hurt myself or do serious damage because my
foundation is in the Non-linier power movements of Qi Gong. It
is my Qi Gong that allows me to take on this extra effort.
Now that may sound strange to some. How can training without
weights enable you to train at an even deeper level with
weights?
Well for evidence of this I need only point to some of the
Russian Olympic power lifters. These dudes spent more time off
the weights then on them and took home plenty of gold over the
last half century to prove their methods as practical.
The movements of body weight training are clean because you are
the weight.
We are talking about building Strength, Speed, and Power, not
just muscle mass.
When you focus entirely on weight training you are no longer
the center, muscles are then enslaved to linear movements and
develop abnormal patterns of movement.
What I mean by this is that you will never move your body the
way you do when you are strapped into to a weight machine
unless you ARE strapped into a weight machine.
Life comes in wobbles and jolts, circles and twists, pops and
drops. There isn’t a single sport that mimics the movements of
weight lifting other than weight lifting.
So when you build muscles in these linear movements you create
muscle competency in straight lines only. Then when you go out
in the real world blam you get side swiped with the reality of
life in dynamic flow not straight lines.
Injury will result.
Generally speaking as a healer, the bigger the muscle and the
more it is trained into these straight lines the bigger the
injury is going to be.
That’s right I said it, the bigger the weight trained muscle –
the bigger the injury will be.
The weight training isn’t bad it just doesn’t train all the
potential pathways your body can and will take. You end up
lopsided. Instead of being protected by the strong muscles you
worked so hard to create you accentuate the weaknesses in
movement you didn’t train.
That power from your muscle can easily be driven off course and
twisted into a serious injury.
Let me state for the record, I’m not against weights. I just
suggest that if you do train with weights you want to build
upon a strong connection to your body.
Real strength is the connection between the mind and the muscle.
The best way to build the Body-Mind is moving meditation.
Qi Gong the way I teach it is Moving Meditation.
Once you unify the mind, breathing, and body nothing can stop
you.
My students that have had completed 21 days of the Recharging
Qi Gong http://rechargingqigong.com know what I am talking
about.
I hope you will take a leap, join the fun and find out for
yourself how to tap into the vital Qi force sleeping inside you!
Wishing you the best in Health, Wealth and Happiness, (and
strength)
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