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If you've spent 5 minutes in a typical globo-gym like LA Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness, etc., then you've seen it. Personal trainers guiding their clients through a series of single-joint exercises (tricep pull-downs, curls, calf raises), abdominal exercises, and other isolation exercises. Endless rows of people on treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, working at various levels of intensity. Lots of people achieving various degrees of "hot and sweaty." Stick around long enough and you'll see the same people, doing the same things, at the same weight (or the same intensity), over and over again. Hours and hours of effort put in, but little to no progress to show for it. We'll call the sum total of this activity "gym trickery," to be polite.   Globo-gyms are notorious for fostering this kind of exercise. And that's exactly what these activities are - exercise, not training. Training presupposes the use of a logical process to achieve objectively measured progress. Since getting "hot and sweaty" or "feeling the