There are some body builders who register in a local gym or furnish a home gym but then start a routine of escapism rather than get into the heart of the trade. The funny thing about escapist body builders is that they never quit from bodybuilding. Rather they maintain workout programs for years upon years despite not having any gains to show for their efforts. Escapist body builders can be described as those bodybuilders who never venture into new exercise levels. They never want to take additional workloads or start new exercises. They prefer maintaining to same simple exercises that their bodies are more comfortable with.

The main characteristic of escapist body builders is that they remain in a plateau phase for ages. They might have accumulated considerable gains in the initial stages of body building but after a while they stopping growing. The escapist body builder never rocks the boat with adventurous ventures. After learning a few exercises, their bodies master the energy and technique to manage these exercises without a lot of effort. After that, the body builders refrain fro anything that challenges the body to new levels or which seems or even feels uncomfortable.

The problem of staying in comfort zones in body building is that the body never develops or gains either muscle mass or strength beyond this level. Naturally, the human body keeps growing and developing corresponding to the amount of challenges it is subjected to. The body actually increases in muscle mass and strength purely as a means of adapting to new workload challenges. Once it adapts, the exercise and workload level seizes to stimulate further growth.

Body building success only accrues from progressive stimulation by ever increasing workloads and intensity levels. The escapist body builder remains in the same intensity level, avoiding at all costs the challenges of venturing out to new intensity levels. Consequently, they become very good in doing the same things day in day out.

Escapism in body building limits muscle gains. A body builder must take responsibility to take the body through progressive stages of development. That is what keeps body building challenging, exciting and interesting. Unlike aerobics and physical exercises, bodybuilding is rarely concerned with maintaining the physique at a particular state. Rather body building requires progressive growth from one level to another in terms of weight, muscle mass, body strength and muscle endurance.

The sad thing is that most body builders with chronic escapism never realize it. Most body builders pursue body building program with unconscious escapism whereby they ignore, passively watch and out rightly refuse to engage in new exercises, techniques and challenges. Body builders must remain vigilant of their attitude to ensure that they notice when escapism is creeping in. when a body builder starts regarding new ventures to higher levels of training with disdain or disregard, then it is time to take appropriate action. Healing and preventing an escapism attitude is only achieved through progressive training. He or she should just reach out to intensity, frequency patterns and diet requirements that have been hitherto impossible to attain.

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