hey guys i know a guy who basically changes excersises every week maybe even rep range. I know most people dont train like this they usually stick to the samre thing for a few weeks. My question is how the hell does it progress if he never gets used to what hes doing. Also it works hes a bodybuilder and hes big haha. I would never think of changing it up that much, does anyone train like this?
I’m constantly switching my stuff around. SUre, you get stronger overall, even if you do inclines 1st one week, but flats 1st the next. Your body can adapt to anything, so keeping it guessing will keep it trying to adapt.
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I’m constantly switching my stuff around. SUre, you get stronger overall, even if you do inclines 1st one week, but flats 1st the next. Your body can adapt to anything, so keeping it guessing will keep it trying to adapt.
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true i got ya but its not even like switching when you do them like for legs he might do back squat leg press and leg extension and the next week do 3 diffrent excerises for quads yano
usually you have to give your body a few weeks to adapt to a stimulus, i just dont think that the body can adapt to that stimulus in a week
I imagine since ‘hes a bodybuilder and big’ that his methods are more to avoid boredom and safely continue to progress. If he focused soley on say…squats it’s possible that he might find himself lifting weights he is uncomfortable with from a risk standpoint.
I have no idea since I am not him but i do believe it is possible to make some gains without ever sticking to a particular set workout, especially if you are already big.
-Insert the obligatory quote about arnold never doing the same workout twice-
Anyway thats not to say I would train like that, I like a little bit more structure but am certainly a fan of changing things up often.
Nothing wrong with that kind of regime. Always doing something different is a lot better than always doing the same thing.
As long as you up the weight in the same rep bracket or do more reps with the same weight each time the same exercise comes around (as in DC training, for example), then you’re good.
Maybe the guy that the op knows has multiple variations of the same workout that he rotates through.
Once you’ve done every workout once and thus have a baseline to go from, you basically beat a previous workout’s achievement every time you train.
This way makes it easier to avoid stalling on exercises, too.