Today I would like to share with you the words of Arthur Jones, founder of the world famous Nautilus strength training equipment and the most vocal and eloquent proponent of the school of low volume “high intensity” philosophy of bodybuilding. Whilst I disagree with any dogmatic statement – the bottom line here is that NO one training philosophy is universally correct as the body will adapt to any stimulus over time – much of what Arthur Jones had to say back in the the 1970s and 1980s is prescient to all our personal training clients today. The following are his views on the adaptability and usefulness of weight training as a means to producing ANY type of training effect – be it fat loss, muscle building, or so -called “general health”.
Arthur Jones:
The lifting of weights is so much superior for the purpose of improving the cardiovascular condition of a human being that whatever is in second place is not even in the running, no pun intended. That is to say, running is a very poor, a very dangerous, a very slow, a very inefficient, a very non-productive method for eventually producing a very limited, low order of cardiovascular benefit. Any… ANY result that can be produced by any amount of running can be duplicated and surpassed by the proper use of weight lifting for cardiovascular benefits. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people in this country who don’t understand that, who don’t believe that, who will not admit that. Now, these people are simply uninformed. Certainly, as it’s possible to run with no benefit, it’s also possible to lift weights with no benefit. I’m talking about the proper use of weight lifting; and properly applied, weight lifting will improve your cardiovascular ability to a degree that is impossible to attain with any amount of running.
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