It’s a well-trodden path, you start off all guns blazing, buy new trainers, get up early to get down the gym 3 times a week but after a few sessions things stagnate, and attendance drops alongside enthusiasm.
The root cause for this is often two things – boredom and lack of perceived progress. This comes from doing the same workout over and over again. The same weights lifted for the same number of reps, same resistant level on the cardio machines and so on. Mentally you will become stale and physically your body will quickly adapt to what you are asking it to do.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” Albert Einstein
BUT you never have to do the same workout twice.
Think of all the variables you could be changing – weight lifted, reps performed, sets performed, equipment used, rest taken, indoors, outdoors, group training, one on one training, rowing, swimming, climbing, jumping etc etc.
Now I am not saying you should change things up just for the sake of it. Your health and fitness goals will dictate broadly what you are doing in each session. However, variety done smartly can keep you committed both mentally and physically which will mean you enjoy your sessions a whole lot more and through clever programming you will see incremental progress every week.
Smart, sustainable progress. Its simple but not easy.
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