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What’s the difference between a great workout and a great workout program?
A great workout will challenge you physically and mentally, it will elevate your heart rate and get you breathing hard, it will also get your endorphins pumping and leave you feeling great and full of energy! Those are all great things but... one great workout will not make you lose weight, nor get you in shape, it will not transform your physique, it will not improve your strength or cardiovascular conditioning, it also won’t make you better at a given exercise or skill...
A great workout program means you will repeat that great workout again and again... This is called Training FREQUENCY. Each time you will improve slightly. Your body will begin to adapt to the challenge of the routine and your physical and mental strength will increase. Your body will build muscle as it becomes more efficient at performing each exercise. You will have to add more training VOLUME by increasing the weight/repetitions you use for each exercise. You will also begin to recover faster which means you’ll become less sore and be able to increase your training INTENSITY. Manipulating Frequency, Volume, and Intensity are how you can continue making progress and continue to build muscle while losing body fat. Manipulating these training variables properly will ensure you’re using PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD and constantly challenging your level of athleticism and fitness. This means your body is constantly challenged to adapt and you’ll never plateau.
A great workout program applies these principles using not just one great workout but a variety of strategically designed and scheduled workouts that challenge the bodies fast and slow twitch muscles, use agonist/antagonist muscle pairings to avoid imbalances/strain/overuse injuries, challenge various movement patterns and planes of motion to improve mobility and movement quality, using different grips and foot positions, using symmetrical and asymmetrical exercises, incorporating all three of our bodies primary energy systems, while also carefully ensuring adequate rest and recovery to prevent overtraining. Oh yeah and it needs to be fun of course!
