Some other benefits of Transformetrics

[Greg Newton]

Often we focus on appearance and arbitrary measures of strength, such as how many pushups we can do as a testimony to the effectiveness of Transformetrics. However, this style of training and living has many more benefits to the overall quality of our lives and health.

These two pictures were from last Spring where I helped build a picnic shelter for my church, New Life Church of God in Easley, SC. At 49, I can still work like a dog doing manual labor. I also have the balance and coordination to work heights. Many of our younger men, sadly, were too heavy to get up there.

Greg

[entrma]

Very well said. As we are all physical and spiritual/emotional beings.

[MikeNY]

Greg that might be partly genetic, I worked construction in NY in College and guys that work where there is height many times are native American or Italian decent, they are comfortable working up there.

But I understand what you are saying, you have the ability to do the work and this training keeps you young enough.

[Greg Newton]

Good point Mike. But, I was so busted up and out of shape a few years ago, I wouldn't have been able to do it. I am not fond of heghts, but I can work them, because my sense of balance and coordination are so much better than before. In 2000 I took some police explorers rapelling, That was when I realized how bad of conditioning I'd gotten into. Climbing up that rickety old rappelling tower I was fearful and I could feel every extra pound of superfluous muscle and fat I had on my body. That is when it began to dawn on me that the weights just didn't cut it anymore and that I was getting OLD. Thanks to John's methods over the past four years, I've been able to reverse that.

Greg

[John Peterson]

AMEN GREG!

Your post underscores one of the most important and essential aspects of all in the quest for lifelong strength and fitness and that is real world application. One of the reasons you are able to work heights as you mention in this post Greg, is due to your superior development not only of enduring strength but also your sense of balance, coordination and especially spatial awareness. (For those who don't know, Spatial awareness is the ability to be aware of oneself in space. ) This can best be developed in the "fitness" sense by moving one's own body through multiple planes of movement. This sense of spatial awareness cannot be developed for the most part or enhanced by using machines or moving something outside of yourself, as is done with standard weight training exercises(Olympic style weightlifting is a major exception because it definitely develops spatial awareness). In order for spatial awareness to be maximized It requires that the body itself be moved through multiple planes and directions of movement exactly as we teach in the Power Calisthenics section of the Transformetrics Training system. This in turn develops real world functional strength & fitness. Now granted, there will be Wile E Coyotes that read what I have just stated and will try to twist my words in order to say that I am bashing other methods of training but I am not. I am stating a fact. One cannot develop real world strength and fitness by strapping themselves in to weight training machines and moving weights through fixed movement patterns that isolate muscle groups. Coordinated strength that enhances balance and spatial awareness is best developed by moving the body itself. For example, Pull-Ups/Chin-ups will develop spatial awareness while strapping into a Nautilus Lat Pull-Down machine does not and naturally the list and comparison of exercises could go on and on. Bottom line: in order to get the most benefit for the time invested people should forget the weights and use their own body's to develop real world strength and total fitness.

---John Peterson

[Big Bear]

I agree with everything you and John wrote here today Greg.

As the other 49 year old I would concur.In fact it is so strange,it seems that we are almost going back to a younger body and it's awareness of space and exercise. I feel great and I know you do as well.Great post!

peace,
jason

[Greg Newton]

Hey John,

When I quit doing Hapkido years ago and began focusing exclusively on weight training, I lost much of my spatial awareness. If I knew then, what I know now, it would have been hundreds of pushups, sit-ups, leg raises, and deep knee bends. I would have never touched a weight. I could have been a much better martial artist as well as a healthier and better built individual.

BTW, I saw an episode of Daniel Boone from maybe the early seventies today. Woody Strode was the special guest star and in his late fifties, he looked fantastic.

Greg