Fitness: A Literacy Being Mushfaked

Dante Trudel: DC Training

With new theories on training, dieting and supplementation arising everyday, visionary trainers are developing their methods with no real expertise that can be derived from fitness certifications or even educations in sports medicine. They are taking these pieces of information they've learned from magazines and books, as well as what they've learned from others in the gym and are creating a Mushfake Literacy. In Social Linguistics and Literacies, James Paul Gee writes that, “For many of us not acculturated early in life to ‘mainstream dominant Discourses, but who have lived large parts of our lives in them, we come to realize, I believe that a significant part of our success’ in evading the gatekeeping efforts of our society is due to ‘Mushfake’” (Gee, 178). Gee suggests that those of us who haven’t acquired mainstream dominant Discourses, but are surrounded by them, will be at a disadvantage because the elite will act as gatekeepers within our society. He believes that mushfaking is the greatest tool we have to succeeding when a dominant Discourse isn’t learned.

Neil Hill: Y3T

 

Hany Rambod: FST-7

I believe that Mushfaking has become the key to succeeding in the fitness industry. Many of    these trainers don't have formal educations (in anything fitness related) but have developed methods based off trial and error using themselves and others to experiment with their methods that haven't been backed by any literature before it. These trainers above have developed some of the most successful training methods that bodybuilders use today, but none of them look like bodybuilders (Neil Hill used to bodybuild). They are successful because they knew that there was more to building muscle than what the training institutions and books/magazines that Joe Weider provided.

Now, these are some of the people who've benefited from these nontraditional methods of training.

Cedric McMillan: DC

Flex Lewis: Y3T

Jay Cutler and Phil Heath: FST-7