Metro - “Muscles are what moves us. Every movement is about our muscles,” says Jenn Coia, LMT, who works at Manhattan’s Spa Merge. “I used to work at a gym when I was in massage school. I’d see these guys with big, hulking muscles and they could barely move. They’re decreasing their range of motion of every joint. If you can’t move, then you’re having to compensate for what should be a natural range of motion.”
The result can be injury, ranging from tightness and soreness in other areas to joint wear and postural problems, including restriction of blood flow or even nerve damage. “That’s why yoga and Pilates took off. They allow you to build toned muscles, but they allow you to be functional,” says Coia.
I know what you think I am going to say,
“This stupid bitch is ripping on meatheads because she probably is too bufugly (butt fucking ugly) to land a real man so instead she resorts to writing a shitty article in the Metro denouncing weight lifting and promoting her friends yoga/message therapy practice.”
There. I said it.
This article is discouraging the fabled and vitalizing activity of bodybuilding, slandering the good name of weightlifting, and provides no scientific evidence with which to back it up. This is pure Yoga propaganda - Yoganda, and I will have none of it. Next time put your bullshit article in SHAPE magazine where nobody with an actual brain will ever read it.
-Tony “Two Scoops” Muscoli
