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Yep, I hear you regarding following bad programs. I lifted weights for over 10 years before I even learned what a deadlift is. I didn't even know it was something i should get good at. The football coach in highschool didn't have us performing any programs - we bench pressed and cleaned on the first day to see who might be good at what but that was it. I didn't know the big compound movements were the basics or the foundation of strength let alone how to get better at them. I thought you hypertrophied a muscle and that was that just like FLEX said to. The institutional knowledge around strength training has been isolation training from the bodybuilding world for a long time. I think those doing kickbacks just don't know the basics are the basics. They think the bench press and delt raise are basics. On top of that, they think the hypertrophy volume/intensity is the only way to train. What we get is a bunch of people doing 3x10 triceps kickbacks with a weight they can perform that volume in an isolated movement - that happens to be pink .
It would be great to see an SF magazine on the shelf. I don't really care for CrossFit but one thing i really like about it is that it helped a lot of the fitness world learn what the basics really are. I was at a globo-gym once doing TGUs and this lady was walking by with her trainer and said she wanted to "try those", he politely told her to go back to her isolation training. Not only do trainees not know, too many trainers don't seem to know either - or they simply avoid the basics for liability or dependency reasons.
It would be great to see an SF magazine on the shelf. I don't really care for CrossFit but one thing i really like about it is that it helped a lot of the fitness world learn what the basics really are. I was at a globo-gym once doing TGUs and this lady was walking by with her trainer and said she wanted to "try those", he politely told her to go back to her isolation training. Not only do trainees not know, too many trainers don't seem to know either - or they simply avoid the basics for liability or dependency reasons.