ultimatehlth wrote:Good advice. I just wanted to add change up your workouts often. You need to change the weight training circuits using different movements, reps etc. to keep it fresh and keep the results coming.
I will politely disagree here. I know a lot of people do that, but in mind a good workout only fails to stop working, when results stop and even then results could be stopping, because the diet needs adjusting for more progress.
People do change to keep it challenging and that's fine for them. I tend to stick mostly to the same thing. It makes it easier for me to just do it, without having to remember a load of new stuff. Planning workouts used to annoy me. Taking 1-2 hours working stuff out, consulting sheets of paper in the gym, trying to remember stuff and taking too long in the process.
I make occasional tweaks these days, but mostly it's the same thing. Current workout has been pretty much 95% the same, since last January. Easy to remember and I don't find it boring, it challenges me, so that's good.
In mind a good workout can last potentially a long time. If you stall, change your diet and see what happens. You might actually find if you like the workout you're doing, providing you keep the diet modified when needs be, you could get 6-12 months+ from it perhaps.
Most never do that, so I doubt there's a massive amount of solid science, involving good workouts and hundreds of participants, to prove most good workouts fizzle after 6 weeks, but I could be wrong.
So I suggest you change a workout if you wish, but if you like it, keep going and change diet when needs be, to kickstart progress again, or apply the old saying "it it aint broke don't it"
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