[Ternneowns]

I had no idea you knew how much I wanted to develop the other muscles. Since I don't even know, can you elaborate on what you mean by that? From what I heard, besides swimming, if you had to pick one excercise over everythig else, most people would pick running. I'm not very knowledgeable in this area though.

well we're on a kendo board so I didn't think I was totally off the wall in thinking that you would want the muscles you use in kendo built up.

anyway, what I meant is that what most gym freaks I know do is go through periods (lets just say 6 months a piece) where they would focus on eating tons of protein and weight lifting to build up muscle. Then, they would focus on running and swimming (or any cardio for that matter) to burn off any excess fat.

And just in case you're thinking it, don't worry about that myth that having muscles makes you slow. As long as you don't train purely for bulk, you will get faster. Muscles were meant to be able to move their own weight and more.