Monday, September 21, 2009

Strength Building

Using Modeling For Building Strength And Stamina To Maintain Fitness

by Graham McKenzie

?Modeling? is the process of copying strength and stamina building methods from those who possess the skills, knowledge, and results that you?re looking to achieve, allowing you very quickly duplicate their results. Modeling gives you an advantage in your training by speeding up your progress by a great deal, and it can sometimes shave years off the learning curve that you would normally be exposed to if you trained without a model.

The modeling for building strength and stamina concept has been used to uncover the strategies used by talented people such as medal winning athletes, persuasion strategies of salespeople, creative strategies of Walt Disney and even the intelligence strategies of Albert Einstein. With this in mind you can use the idea of modeling for building strength and stamina in your quest to achieve what people who have weathered disease and aging and are still building strength and stamina.

Although it only makes sense to model your training after those who have impressive strength or stamina, the key is to find the right role models on whom to base your strategy. You of course don?t want to follow the examples of the many overweight and unhealthy people around us: you need to find people who are already successful with their training, who already possess the results that you want to achieve.

Once you get the right people, the process of building strength and stamina will be as easy as copy paste. For those older people approaching their 40s it is good to look for those people who have maintained fitness over long durations. If you have certain health problems your role model should also have faced a similar problem and overcame it. A good example is Clarence Bass who authored the book ?Lean for Life?. Dr. Richard Winett author of ?Ageless Athletes? is another perfect role model.

Clarence Bass and Dr. Richard Winett are both in incredibly good shape, and have been able to maintain very low body fat over age of 50. Bass had only 2% body fat at age 56, and Dr. Winett was able to achieve 5% body fat at a 27? inch wait at age 52. As far as role models go, you could do worse than to choose either of these men!

Using a role model will allow you to build your strength and stamina, and using their methods exactly as they used them will allow you to effectively clone their level of success. However, you should know that you won?t be able to model your strength and stamina building simply by observing or reading about your role models ? you need to get up to your elbows in the actual work of building strength and stamina with the people that you choose to emulate, and you may need to interview and do exhaustive research with many people before you?re able to settle on a role model.

After working closely with role models who have successfully managed to build strength and stamina you will have enough knowledge on the best diet to take and how to schedule your training workouts. You will also discover that success in building strength and stamina has similar characteristics in every person. These common characteristics are what can help you build your strength and stamina easily therefore you should learn them quickly so that you can easily duplicate them in your fitness plan.

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