Mixing up your workouts

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With the Maggie's General Fitness protocol (2 hrs of calisthenics, 2 hrs of HIIT and endurance cardio, and 2 hrs of difficult weights), there is no need to do any single exercise twice in a week.

Some examples:

For legs etc, you can do deadlift one day, barbell squats another. Or leg-press.

For HIIT, you can do stairmaster one day, treadmill sprints on another.

For triceps, you can do press-downs one day, skullcrushers on another.

For calisthenics, the list of choices is so long that you always vary what you do.

Varying the things you do reduces boredom, but also keeps your neuromuscular system nimble and adjusting.

Posted by Bird Dog in Physical Fitness at 13:10 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Keeping in mind though that a leg press is very different than a squat or a deadlift, the former being almost exclusively a quad exercise while the latter are pretty much full body workouts. And if you mix it up enough that you end up squatting or deadlifting every two weeks or so, you'll never make any progress on those lifts, as any adaptation from one workout is lost due to detraining in the time between the next workout.

On the other hand, if you have a 'chest' day, that means the bench press, which involves the triceps. If you then have a 'shoulders' day, you might do overhead press, again involving the triceps. If you then throw in an 'arm' day by doing triceps press-downs, you've worked the triceps yet again.

So by doing this "General Fitness" protocol, you can end up with both too little and too much stress on your various body parts.

#1 RJP on 2021-11-04 19:45 (Reply)

The good about Crossfit - constantly varied workouts. The bad about Crossfit - constantly varied workouts.

I like it for overall total body strength and fitness, but it's hard to improve significantly at things like dead lifts, squats, and snatches without taking extra time to focus on them.

#2 RIV on 2021-11-04 21:20 (Reply)

Since you mentioned Crossfit (Warning: Hilarious but extremely crude language!): BroScience: What is Crossfit?

Quote from the video that would fit right in here: "You don't have to worry about exercising for a goal, because exercising is the goal".

#2.1 RJP on 2021-11-04 21:59 (Reply)

Slightly related: anyone here ever use SARMs?

#3 Maniac on 2021-11-05 08:49 (Reply)

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