Train like Voltron
Step into any commercial gym and what do you see? Besides old men in too short shorts and 80s aerobic queens in leopard print leotards, you probably see a sea of treadmills, elliptical trainers and a ton of different machines to work each part of the body. If you’ve ever joined a commercial gym, you’ve probably gotten a workout template to follow or even some free personal training sessions. In either case, you are probably told to do at least half an hour of “cardio” and then given a circuit of machines to do a few times a week. This might be a circuit that targets all the major muscle groups or you might be instructed to work the body in a “split”, where each bodypart is worked on seperate days. Where this might work for : 
Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler, whose only goal is to get big muscles, it should not be the way one should train if one wants their body’s performance to improve along with its aesthetics. Training like this is not likely to increase performance. It will more likely lead you to being what many strength coaches call “all show and no go”.
So back to the title of this article.
We are humans, not robots. We can’t just oil a joint if it gets rusty or replace your old model forearm with the upgraded version. We evolved so our bodies move and function as one large unit. Like Voltron, all the different parts of our bodies connect and function together in order for us to succeed at our given athletic endeavors, let alone survive and flourish.
So if you are a dancer, sprinter, wrestler, powerlifter or just wanting to carry your laundry and groceries up the stairs without it being a struggle and the neighbors laughing at you, why would you train your body in seperate components like you were this guy?:
We must train our bodies the way we want them to function. If you perform your given activity moving only one bodypart at a time (like the cool guy at the party still doing the robot), or you are a bodybuilder not concerned with strength or speed, then isolation training is acceptable. But, if you express yourself through movement, whether it be sport, performing arts, or the martial ones, does it not make sense to train your body to be strong, fast, coordinated and balanced as a whole and not like the inventory of Jeffrey Dahmer’s Frigidaire?
Train like Voltron.
