Is Weight Training Without A Workout Partner The Best Bodybuilding Motivation Tool?

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Bodybuilding is a hobby that demands significant weight training discipline and consistency, and many feel that having a partner with similar goals can improve mental focus and enhance the impact of each weight lifting workout. This concept is true for many, but there are also some who actually find that solo weight training workout routines provide an environment for enhanced dedication and consistency when compared with relying upon a weight lifting workout partner. Surprisingly to many, there are those who feel that weight training partners are detrimental to long term consistency, and are able to achieve far better fat reduction and muscle gain progress alone, without the benefit of a weight training partner.

Despite certain weight lifters experiencing a desire to train with a partner, locating an individual who has a comparable schedule and who wishes to attend on the agreed upon day and time each week can prove difficult. Even when locating a prospective candidate, we all seem to experience agenda conflicts regardless of how well intentioned we may be, and two seemingly synchronized weight lifters are likely to find themselves at odds. In addition, many weight lifters have their own personal weight training time preference, with some feeling more alert in the morning hours, prior to starting their day, and others feeling far more motivated for an intense weight lifting session during later hours. This difference in preference naturally makes finding another bodybuilder with an identical frame of mind cumbersome.

In addition to the likelihood of scheduling conflicts, a set of similar goals is required, meaning that a bodybuilder who wishes to produce substantial muscle growth cannot comfortably weight train with one who seeks fat loss and tone, as the two will often perform conflicting types of workouts. Although, technically, both could train at the same time, because their workouts may significantly differ, motivating each other without wasting a large amount of time bouncing between different weights becomes difficult, and soon, the two will find that they experience far greater focus and efficiency when training alone.

Even when both weight lifters have the exact same muscle building and fat loss goals, the amount of weight used in exercises will likely differ, sometimes dramatically, and the two weight lifting partners will feel as if they are switching free weights on the bars more frequently than they are actually training their muscles, leading to lengthy workout sessions. Weight training workouts can become extremely grueling when inconveniences begin to monopolize gym time, and making drastic workout weight changes each set due to a disparity in strength levels is a quick way for any bodybuilder to become frustrated with the time spent on each weight lifting session.

Another roadblock towards finding the perfect weight training partner is workout pacing, as some wish to rush through a weight lifting workout session seemingly at light speed, while others feel far more at ease with greater rest periods. This will create a significant pacing conflict, and considering that disciplined weight training is sufficiently difficult to endure when all environmental variables are absolutely perfect, just imagine when a weight training partner decides that they wish to execute a workout at a rate of speed which you find offensive! In such a scenario, the weight lifting session will become unnecessarily stressful, and the two partners will try to find a way to abandon the obligation to train together in order to preserve sanity.

Lastly, regardless of how dedicated two workout partners may be towards achieving muscle gain or fat loss, the chances are astronomically high that idle chatter will infiltrate weight lifting sets, extending rest time, and the workout itself, far beyond what is necessary. Amazingly, two weight lifting partners can discuss a subject between sets and allow a time period that seemingly feels immaterial to reach several minutes, and the lengthy workout sessions that result are known for draining all motivation and desire to continue training.

I am one who has always performed my weight lifting workout sessions alone, and have found this to be the most potent method for my personality and individual preferences, but during the few times I have trained together with others, I cannot recall any weight lifter ever asking to train with me again, and those workout sessions with partners were, for me, far less intense than my normal weight lifting workouts, when I am training alone, with no distractions, as quickly or slowly as I choose, with music I feel energized by, and without attention diverting conversations that extend weight training workout length beyond reasonable levels.