bacon said:
You lost me right here...
I am not surprised.
I've talked to a number of trainers about Superslow protocol, looking
for an instructor in my region, and haven't run into one yet who knows
anything about it, never mind having tried it.
And the nearest Superslow instructor, about four mountain ranges and
six hundred air miles away, has been a trainer for twenty years, and a
master Superslow instructor for three or four years. You'd think that
with Ellington Darden, probably the best known Superslow promoter in
the world, endorsing the Bowflex, every Superslow trainer would at
least have looked at one. But no, he's never used one, and doesn't
know how or whether Superslow could be adapted to this apparatus.
So I'd say the strength training community is a pretty sluggish lot
when it comes to seeking out and adopting new techniques or equipment,
and trainers are probably the last group to go out on a limb and
clamour for a change of equipment. Besides, the Bowflex's small
storage footprint, light weight, and relatively safe use (and
pleeeeease don't tell me free weights aren't dangerous, I've got a
hole in my floor to remind me otherwise), will tend to take customers
away from gyms and trainers. So promoting its use is not in the
economic interest of trainers.
