Carrying on with adventures in powerlifting.
Once I decided that it might be fun to try competing in powerlifting competition, I was presented with my greatest challenge yet - working out how to go about that.
Powerlifting is a fairly niche sport, there's lots of really keen athletes and lots of resources out there (thank you internets), but they tend to be polarised between the fairly superficial, which helped me decided that it was something I wanted to pursue, but didn't tell me how, and the completely specialist, that assumes you are already in and know what's going on.
We haven't done gym myths for a bit, so lets have another look at one of our fairytale characters.Do you spend 90% of your gym time on cardio machines?Does your programme consist of a circuit of all the different cardio options?Do you exercise at a consistent level, without harder or rest intervals? Then you might be a Cardio Camper! The counterpart to All weights - no cardio!
Firstly, well done. You are in the gym, and the cardio fans are often amongst the most consistent and active gymgoers. I have no interest in criticising that at all. What I would like to do though, is to help you channel that dedication to get better results!
And who doesn't want that? What if you could spend the same, or less, time in the gym, but actually see faster and greater improvements in your cardiovascular fitness, lose weight faster, get stronger and improve your alignment and gait?