A little clarity on muscle confusion: Many popular fitness programs preach the necessity to constantly change movement patterns. They claim doing the same motion over and over again leads to stagnant progression. Im calling bullshit. If youve been following us for a while you know by now that performing and exercise, no matter how remedial, is a skill. To get better at a certain lift you need to do that lift. Altering any parameter of a lift changes it. Squatting with 300 lbs clearly isnt the same as 500 lbs. Neither is a 300 lb squat with a 3 second eccentric when compared to a 300 lb squat with a 6 sec eccentric. You dont need to change an entire movement to change the demands placed on the body. Yes, you will periodically need to add or remove exercises in order to avoid things like overuse injuries and CNS fatigue. Rotating exercises can help strengthen structural imbalances and drive progression, but this can easily be done with properly periodized programming. Not by throwing a bunch of shit against the wall and hoping something sticks. Constantly changing your exercises is like driving into a mud pit at full speed. Youll only go so far before your wheels start spinning.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:36:50 +0000
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