Tuesday, April 14, 2009

On...Sets + Reps

How long have you been stagnant in your progress toward your body of death?

How many times do you perform three sets of 10-ish reps for every exercise you do at the gym?

How much have you varied the weights you push and pull in the last year?

If you've answered what I'm pretty sure you've answered, consider switching up your set and rep count...you're body is a brilliantly clever machine and probably doesn't even need your mental presence to perform what you've been plodding through for the past several months...years...decades, even! And this, my friends, is a severe problem...you need to be incredibly in-tune with your workout: if your routine does not require your total focus, you might want to renegotiate your regime. You must keep your body guessing as to what you're going to make it do, before it gets too accustomed to the exercises and punishes you by refusing to develop any further. Pay heed to the blindfold workout that your body knows like the back of its hand.

To that end, SWITCH IT UP!

Perhaps you could do match a certain day with a certain number of reps and sets? Think of the endlessly diverse number of workouts you would create...enough to give you goose pimples, no?

For example, devote Mondays to 3 sets of 15, for every exercise you do, on Wednesdays do 2 sets of 25 and round off Friday with 4 sets of 8. It's novel, exciting AND...result-inducing.

I promise.

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