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Choosing general weight training Convenient weight training: Random training by weight for the sake of toning a particular part of the body is the most common form of weight training. The public perceives weight training as a form of dumbbells used to stretch the biceps of the upper arms. Most people believe that without dumbbells or barbells strength will not be acquired. Such form of training is very enjoyable to most because of lack of complex planning strategy. Many people in their late adult life still attach weight training to biceps-dumbbell couple. It is better than nothing to get to the gym and pull some weights to strengthen a limb or so. The disadvantages of this scheme are: it is a total waste of time, as far as time is precious to reach goals, it does not accomplish any fruitful results, it can seriously deform the entire skeleton, it leaves the trainee with sense of hopelessness due to stagnation of any progress. The most common deformities due to convenient weight training are: (1) hunch back due to flawed posture. A motivated person would never lift weight by convenience without planning. This lack of motivation over the years culminates into a deformed upper thoracic vertebrae, and anterioraly displaced shoulder: concave clavicular-sternomaniburum line. (2) cervical backward compensation of the hunch back. (3) very frequent muscle injuries due to lack of balancing opponent muscles. Shoulder injuries, parascapular muscle injuries, cervical injuries, and low back injuries. (4) the trained muscle by this scheme do not grow properly in strength of 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. A trainee with noticeable weak forearms would resort to this scheme when he 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 entire breathing ability of an athlete and its random and convenient training any time makes the difference between success and failure. No well-planned strategy would take care of all muscle groups and convenient training is best utilized by talented athletes to make them different from all others. The alternative bodybuilding scheme of hitting all muscle groups to achieve complete body is life consuming, if not just time consuming. The performance of Olympic lifters cannot be solely analyzed by any statistical method of training ideology. These are persons with their own secrets that made them different. A combination of the right rules would put the person on the top of his entire generation. However, these secrets would never exceed the three basic rules: nutrition, rest, and exercise. Excess or less would deny a person a golden opportunity to be a leader. The rule of best nutrition does not require drugs nor exquisite food ingredients, it requires simplicity and common sense. The rule of rest would preclude a dysfunctional heart, lung, and nervous system and is the most expensive rule in middle class working population. The rule of exercise deals with less bodyweight, invigorating the breathing muscles: abdomen and chest lifters, and conditioning the body extensors to counteract gravity.
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