Keep your results from stalling Pt 1

TRAINING:

We have all heard it before. You must change your workouts every 30 or ‘X’ amount of days otherwise your results will slow down or even worst stop completely. As much as there is a bit of truth to the concept there is a lot of bogus in it too. When it comes to training most people will experience that at first they are sore from their workouts, (which is actually called Delayed on set muscle soreness – D.O.M.S) and they associate this “pain” with results. After a while though, they don’t feel as sore so they associate it to a bad workout or that it wasn’t good enough. This isn’t necessarily true either. For years personally I haven’t felt any soreness on my delts, but this doesn’t mean they’ve never changed since then. The truth is the body just got used to the workload, but this doesn’t mean that A.) You need to switch up the entire routine B.) You aren’t progressing in your goals. These are a few variables you can switch up in your workouts (even they are the same exercises) that will keep your results still progressing.

• Overall number of total sets in the workout (increase them)

• Overall reps in a total workout (volume)

• Rest Time between sets

• Exercise Selection

• Style of workout (German Volume Training, HIIT, FST-7, etc)

• Workload (how heavy you go)

These are just a few factors you can change to keep your goals from slowing down. Pick one or two of these factors and apply it to the next workout. You don’t need to re-invent the wheel for your body to keep changing. Even giving your body a full week break after a good intense 8 weeks of training will keep your system in shock.

The idea of changing entirely your workout though can be fun, spice things up and make you eager to come back and grind. Sometimes the same workout over and over can get a bit boring so switching it up will definitely keep it fun. After all, if you don’t enjoy training you most like will not want to go back. Don’t fall under the original idea fitness marketing schemes have told you; you don’t need to change your entire workout every so often to keep your results from being achieved.

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