To get the most out of your fat loss program, changeability is important but consistency is also key to your success.
By: Brett MacPherson
In a previous article I have discussed the importance of manipulating your workouts regularly in order to keep getting good results, when either losing weight, building muscle or toning up.
Even though manipulating the variables of your training routine is important to its success, your workouts shouldn’t necessarily be completely different each time. Training randomly each workout doesn’t give you a chance to repeat and upgrade on your specific type of workout, this then doesn’t allow for your body to adapt and
upgrade on its current condition. An ideal way to plan your workouts to get great results is to mostly be consistent and to them try to gradually upgrade on components of your routine for a specific
time.
Once you have trained for this period, you should then alter your training variables, as I have described in the "exercise changeability" article, you can then stay consistent with this new routine for somewhere between 4 and 8 weeks, again attempting to upgrade where you can. To go over how to alter your routine, you can alter the number of sets and repetitions of the exercises, the sequence of your exercises, the way you group exercises, the type of exercise, the number of exercises each workout, the resistance you use, the time your muscles are under tension,
the amount of stability you use, the volume of training work, recovery periods you use, movement speed, range of motion, the angle of the exercises, and manipulating the frequency of your workouts are some examples of ways you can alter your routine every 4-8 weeks.
Lets put this into practice, if you are training using 10 sets of 3 repetitions over 6 different exercises grouped in pairs taking 30 seconds recovery between each pair and no rest within the pair. If you are doing this right, you are tracking your progress but writing down your weights, sets and repetitions as you progress. After about 6 weeks, you may find that you are not improving anymore with that routine so you should then start a new routine.
For your next routine you choose a 5 set of 5 repetitions routine, this time you group your exercises using three exercises back to back (tri set or giant set). With each set you perform it with no rest between the three exercises and rest for two minutes after the tri set to fully recover and so you can complete the next set with almost full strength levels.
Here you have a couple of ideas of how you can maintain both consistency and changeability in your training routine to optimise your results. If you want to take all the guess work out of your
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