Day at the Globo Gym

I was desperately looking for a good facility to train while I was visiting in Texas, so I had no choice but to go to the gym my family goes to. I have to say for just the shier size it is very impressive, outdoor pool, indoor basketball court really cool; but it was until I went to the weight room area that I began to shake my head at the hundreds of machine, now I'm not exaggerating here. The funny thing is they have a small little area for "Functional Training" great I said, where is the squat rack? Nothing just a bunch of med balls and bosu balls, go figure; I guess functional training gets thrown around a lot. 

As the fitness industry evolves, we observe great claims of the next best technological equipment; but if our goal is to attain real “fitness”, training should be done in a simpler manner; thus we start developing a more natural and more constructive movement patterns free to move in our environment. This is why it is important that we train our bodies in a natural environment; and not constricted to fancy machinery, that violates every essence of natural movement. Real fitness therefore has to be enjoyable as well as real work. As far as research that backs up this technological equipment, we see what they produce this muscle bound physique, but it deprives them of real strength and real fitness; this industry have enslave us to believe that aesthetics is necessary and has to be substituted with natural movements, in which the human body was design to do. The essence of natural movements is to help us improve our everyday life, as well as in the sport performance arena; only then we could appreciate, enjoy and understand the effects of Functional Training as well as the aesthetics.