Resistance Can Build Muscle, And Resistance Can Prevent Building Muscle.

We’re talking two different kinds of resistance in this case. The weight provides resistance as applied against a muscle, resulting in the muscle building and growing. But the resistance many men (and women) have at the gym to training advice keep most frustrated by their lack of progress in achieving the kind of body they’d like.

This stubbornness is a human trait found in many, the know-it-alls convinced that they know better  than anyone how to go about their workout routine despite having not studied or trained or been the student of a personal trainer or even sampling workout videos, because, you know, those people know what they’re doing. As discussed in other posts, it is fascinating that with all the mirrors at the gym, and all the gym fail videos on youtube, that these people persist in their unproductive, awkward. embarrassing and downright dangerous methods.

In the comments section of Gym Fail videos online, commenters try and shame the makers of the videos for not instead rescuing the ignorant from themselves, for not taking time out of their own workout to “help” them, to show them how to do the exercises correctly, as if on the same channel there weren’t already a thousand videos that provide exactly that guidance. It’s no secret to most veteran gym-goers that trying to advise someone who is doing it wrong brings about their wrath and anger and scorn, because, you know, they believe they’re doing it correctly, and thus it usually only takes one such incident to school the rest of us about this odd phenomenon of the gym know-it-all who is going nowhere fast.