It’s time to stop drooling over those muscles in the Abercrombie ads and start developing some of your own. Remember: Whether you’re a mesomorph, endomorph or ectomorph, the fact is that anybody can morph into a better body — if he has the proper training techniques.
In this spirit, we welcome you to “Worth the Weights,” a series focusing on the art of exercise. Our goal is to help people of all experience levels and body types design sensible routines that work. Through text and images, we will show you the right and the wrong way to lift weights and at the same time strip away the myths and fads of getting fit simply by getting back to basics.
While our opening segments will be geared toward beginners, experienced weight lifters should feel free to relearn the basics, because we’re all about proper from and function.
We also hope to address questions you may have about weight lifting. Let’s start by answering some of the most commonly asked:
What’s so intimidating about the gym?
Let’s face it: Our community puts a lot of importance on self-image and the illusion of the perfect body. So gym beginners with body-image issues can often feel as out of place as Woody Allen at a convention of Abercrombie models. The reality is that 80 percent of the guys in the gym look just like you (talk among yourselves as to whether that’s a good thing) and the muscle studs are a distinct minority (talk among yourselves as to whether that’s a good thing). The gym shouldn’t be a scary place. The playing field is more even than you think.
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Article by Stephen Kelly