One of the interesting things about the fitness industry is that, like fashion, trends come and go only to resurface years later. And, much like fashion, people look back with bemused nostalgia and wonder how they ever thought it was a good idea in the first place. In this way, bodybuilding and bell-bottoms are fairly similar, at least in the way that they are sometimes loved and sometimes hated by the industries they represent. And, unfortunately, bodybuilding has been hated on for far too long. (The same can be said of bell-bottoms, I suppose, but I’ve taken this analogy too far already.)
The unfortunate thing about bodybuilding hatred is that, in my opinion, it occurs for all the wrong reasons. In this two-part article, you’ll see the reasons the training methods of bodybuilders have been discarded and ridiculed by the general fitness industry -- and the reasons for the imminent and necessary return of those methods.
