Comments on: physical culture vs. body building http://ericjmoss.com/physical-culture-vs-body-building/ Eric J. Moss | New Jersey Kettlebell Training | North Jersey Personal Training | RKC Kettlebell Certified Tue, 01 May 2012 08:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: insanity http://ericjmoss.com/physical-culture-vs-body-building/comment-page-1/#comment-2633 insanity Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:03:02 +0000 http://www.ericjmoss.com/?p=501#comment-2633 It's necessary to recognize that fitness is essential to your overall well-being, physical and mental health, and top quality of life. It’s necessary to recognize that fitness is essential to your overall well-being, physical and mental health, and top quality of life.

]]> By: admin http://ericjmoss.com/physical-culture-vs-body-building/comment-page-1/#comment-150 admin Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:24:53 +0000 http://www.ericjmoss.com/?p=501#comment-150 Exactly! Exactly!

]]> By: Shane Kruse http://ericjmoss.com/physical-culture-vs-body-building/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Shane Kruse Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:29:46 +0000 http://www.ericjmoss.com/?p=501#comment-149 There is nothing wrong with looking good. Thick legs, washboard abs, huge guns who doesn't want this? However, if you train for strength, with a bit of heart healthy cardio, and eat healthy you will look like this. Can these fluffed up bodybuilders do even 6 pull ups or run a mile? probably very few. So how functional are your huge arms when you need to escape a burning house or carry a family member to safety? Is any of there appearance going to stick with them after they retire (case in point Arnie god bless him)? Not much. How many people know of someones grandpa who still can kick ass and work hard because 20,30,40 years ago he did real work for a living and ate real food? I know mine could, good lord the man would pack out the deer from his hunting trips over his shoulders into his 70s. Train for functional strength and endurance, eat healthy and appropriately and I can guarentee you'll start turning heads whether in the gym or the grocery store. Wanna be big and look great, tell me what body building magazines this man reads -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2fd7PeKR0 Kirk Karwoski could squat over a grand for rep! (don't hink any of his other numbers were paltry either) well thats my $.02 There is nothing wrong with looking good. Thick legs, washboard abs, huge guns who doesn’t want this? However, if you train for strength, with a bit of heart healthy cardio, and eat healthy you will look like this. Can these fluffed up bodybuilders do even 6 pull ups or run a mile? probably very few. So how functional are your huge arms when you need to escape a burning house or carry a family member to safety?
Is any of there appearance going to stick with them after they retire (case in point Arnie god bless him)? Not much. How many people know of someones grandpa who still can kick ass and work hard because 20,30,40 years ago he did real work for a living and ate real food? I know mine could, good lord the man would pack out the deer from his hunting trips over his shoulders into his 70s. Train for functional strength and endurance, eat healthy and appropriately and I can guarentee you’ll start turning heads whether in the gym or the grocery store.

Wanna be big and look great, tell me what body building magazines this man reads
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2fd7PeKR0
Kirk Karwoski could squat over a grand for rep! (don’t hink any of his other numbers were paltry either)

well thats my $.02

]]> By: admin http://ericjmoss.com/physical-culture-vs-body-building/comment-page-1/#comment-148 admin Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:22:36 +0000 http://www.ericjmoss.com/?p=501#comment-148 Hey David Though I believe the bodybuilding community has a lot to offer and I respect how much discipline they have they have just gotten out of control with people going to the hospital and such. Lately there seems to be paradigm shift from bodybuilding and such to more well rounded programs which led to the uprise of the RKC, CST and Crossfit camps. Its funny you mentioned basketball. It is one sport that I absolutely suck at. If I make a shot I am lucky to hit the backboard (yeah its that bad). When I was on that cruise earlier this year I met a trainer who has pretty much the exact same philosophy as me. I told him I tell people to train for performance and eat for vanity and I train people for health, strength, conditioning and the looks that come with it and he said he did too but just never worded it like that. When we were talking about our individual performance goals I told him mine was to be able to press a lot of weight overhead and his was to improve his vertical leap. He actually trains a couple pro basketball players. You can check his stuff out at http://www.highoctanefitness.com/exclusivetips.html. I don't know if you remember when I talked about that cruise I went on and I proposed and someone else got inspired by me to propose...It was him. Crazy right? Hey David
Though I believe the bodybuilding community has a lot to offer and I respect how much discipline they have they have just gotten out of control with people going to the hospital and such. Lately there seems to be paradigm shift from bodybuilding and such to more well rounded programs which led to the uprise of the RKC, CST and Crossfit camps.

Its funny you mentioned basketball. It is one sport that I absolutely suck at. If I make a shot I am lucky to hit the backboard (yeah its that bad). When I was on that cruise earlier this year I met a trainer who has pretty much the exact same philosophy as me. I told him I tell people to train for performance and eat for vanity and I train people for health, strength, conditioning and the looks that come with it and he said he did too but just never worded it like that. When we were talking about our individual performance goals I told him mine was to be able to press a lot of weight overhead and his was to improve his vertical leap. He actually trains a couple pro basketball players. You can check his stuff out at http://www.highoctanefitness.com/exclusivetips.html. I don’t know if you remember when I talked about that cruise I went on and I proposed and someone else got inspired by me to propose…It was him.

Crazy right?

]]> By: Davide Tarasconi http://ericjmoss.com/physical-culture-vs-body-building/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Davide Tarasconi Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:20:13 +0000 http://www.ericjmoss.com/?p=501#comment-147 "The winner of the contest is always the least healthy in the room". Damn right. During these contests there is always someone ending up to the hospital because of dehydration. These bodybuilding guys have a terrific attitude toward training, but what for? Symmetry, proportion, definition, smallest body fat percentage possible. Absolutely nothing regarding TRUE fitness. I mean, when these guys quit, what can they say about their activities? "I spent my life at the gym to look good". About looking good: these guys (and, please, don't make me think about bodybuilding gals) are ugly. They don't even seem human at all. I started training "the right way" last summer: but I've always been an athlete, I've always played basketball and my physical culture is build around being a better player. During the last match I overpowered a couple of bigger and taller opponents: I just went to the basket a couple of times in a "you-can't-stop-me" fashion, using my upper-body strength to push them away. So when people ask me why I do workouts almost everyday, my answers is: "come to the basketball game". “The winner of the contest is always the least healthy in the room”. Damn right.
During these contests there is always someone ending up to the hospital because of dehydration.

These bodybuilding guys have a terrific attitude toward training, but what for? Symmetry, proportion, definition, smallest body fat percentage possible.

Absolutely nothing regarding TRUE fitness.

I mean, when these guys quit, what can they say about their activities? “I spent my life at the gym to look good”.

About looking good: these guys (and, please, don’t make me think about bodybuilding gals) are ugly. They don’t even seem human at all.

I started training “the right way” last summer: but I’ve always been an athlete, I’ve always played basketball and my physical culture is build around being a better player.

During the last match I overpowered a couple of bigger and taller opponents: I just went to the basket a couple of times in a “you-can’t-stop-me” fashion, using my upper-body strength to push them away.

So when people ask me why I do workouts almost everyday, my answers is: “come to the basketball game”.

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