Your Workout Play List is Too Old

Variety is the spice of life. It is also the spice of exercise. When exercising, your body develops a sensitivity to the exercises that you are doing. This explains why Michael Jordan was not great at baseball and why Deion Sanders did not have a particularly high on base percentage. Think of exercise as music, Each individual note is an exercise and every movement is a melody that composes your full workout “song”. If you hear the same song enough, you are going to eventually develop a certain sensitivity to a song. You will be able to recognize the melody and have the ability to recite some if not most of the words. When your body has the sensitivity to recognize the “melody” to your workout you loose the shock factor and your muscle growth is going to be limited. Every form of exercise is based on the idea that the muscles of the body adapt to what you are doing. If you can constantly vary what the muscles are doing you become stronger faster. Strong is a relative word and some would say that being able to push 50 pounds off your chest is strong, but how many times can you do it or in how many different directions can you push that 50 pounds? This is the basis of functional strength training at Valley Forge Fitness. Exercising on all planes of anatomical possibility is what makes the body stronger. Having the ability to train the body to do that will only help your workouts. When designing workouts, the more you can train the body to do, or the more songs you have on your “play list” of workouts the better your body will respond to all your training.