I recently saw where someone said that you didnt need to go to an expensive gym to get strong. All you needed was a good mindset, proper nutrition, and friends to spot. While part of that statement is true, as an elite level powerlifter who makes his living making people strong, let me fill in a few more requirements to getting stronger. 1.Knowledge: Training, programming, nutrition, recovery, supplementation, etc all play a major role in a persons progress and success. Every individual is different and the knowledge to be able to manipulate all of these variables is key. That level of knowledge is not something that can be obtained in regular gyms. You have to study and surround yourself with people who are smarter and more experienced than you. 3.Equipment: Ive trained in plenty of commercial gyms and can honestly say that pretty much every one of them had pretty horrible equipment for a strength athlete. The bars are old and worn down, the dumbbells arent heavy enough, they dont have chains, bands, specialty bars, reverse hypers, GHRs, etc, etc. Even fewer let you deadlift or have the equipment necessary to do so like a deadlift bar, bar jack, and rubber flooring. None of the allow chalk. And if you compete in strongman, forget about it. NBS Fitness Fitness is the only facility in Memphis that has all of this and more. We cater to the person who is serious about training. 2. Atmosphere: There is a reason that the strongest people in the world train out of barbell clubs, serious training and hardcore gyms. The atmosphere breeds strength. Boss Barbell, Westside, Supertraining, The Sweat Shop, Quads Gym, Metroflex. There is a reason people flock to these gyms. Being a big fish in a small pond is comfortable but if you want to be something greater than normal and average you cant train around average people. 3. Perseverance, dedication, commitment: To truly be successful in strength and physique sports you have to put in your time. The greats, the champions werent built over night. They showed up everyday ready to work, put in the hours, shed blood sweat and tears, dealt with set backs, and overcame. To truly be a powerlifter, bodybuilder, strongman, or what not you have to compete. But competing once does not make you a veteran. Training is measured in decades, not months or years. Strength can be relative. Increasing your lifts is an improvement in strength and a hell of an achievement. But if you truly want to call yourself strong you have to compare yourself to those at the top. Those who exemplify the characteristics listed above can be found at NBS Fitness, The Strongest Gym in Memphis
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:08:04 +0000
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