Mmmm ok I heard that again today while watching some workout video paid program thing...Anyways can somebody give me an example of what it is...
I think it's when you bench press or something, and you do 12 reps 3 sets...then you go up to 15 reps the next week? Or Bench press inclined after you are normal...Is that right?
Confuse the muscles...?
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I'm not familiar with the "confusion" concept.
I do know that if you stick with the identical workout for extended periods of time you will get diminished progress. It is good to mix in new exercises and eliminate some of the older ones every 4 or 6 months.
Your body will learn to be highly efficient at executing certain movements and your results will be slower in coming.
So you might switch from reverse curls to hammer curls for a few months and then switch back or you might start doing dumbbell presses in place of barbell presses. The movements will work the same muscles but in just a slightly different manner and you will stimulate better muscle growth.
In the vernacular the old exercise has gotten "stale".
I do know that if you stick with the identical workout for extended periods of time you will get diminished progress. It is good to mix in new exercises and eliminate some of the older ones every 4 or 6 months.
Your body will learn to be highly efficient at executing certain movements and your results will be slower in coming.
So you might switch from reverse curls to hammer curls for a few months and then switch back or you might start doing dumbbell presses in place of barbell presses. The movements will work the same muscles but in just a slightly different manner and you will stimulate better muscle growth.
In the vernacular the old exercise has gotten "stale".
I've never been truly sold on the diminished returns idea, whereby the same old routine, reduces progross after several weeks.
It's a principle that has been hammered in Magazines, and anywhere and everywhere, particularly by people who compete, saying they keep their muscles "guessing", by switching workouts every 2 weeks, and maybe upto 6 weeks, depnding on the individuals take on it.
Thing is, most people who weightlift will switch up anyway, as they cite reasons for it, like it got same old same old, and I was losing focus or drive.
Though the other thing to consider is, some peoples gains stall, because they don't eat enough.
If you're someone who only needs in the early stages, approximately 2,000-2,500 calories, then obviously eating about 3,500-4,000 calories a day, will help initiate a situation, where the individual can create a body, with the potential to get stronger, but also more fatter too, because calories aren't being increased bit by bit as and when required, so too many get eaten when the body isn't needing of them all.
Howeve the stalled gains then become down to having enough daily nutrition, to maintain a certain level of progress, but without increasing caloric intake no more progress can be kickstarted, assuming workouts are up to snuff.
So theory has always been, that if the individual has a good anabolic workout plan, and increases calories as and when needed every few months, can someone really perservere with a good workout, and eating strategy, and still be gaining mass 1, 2, maybe 3 + years down the line?
A challenge for sure, to keep grinding out the same workouts all the time. I do it, because I'm happy with results, and hate changing and thinking up new workouts, so I just keep the same ones to simplify things, and it allows me to get on with it, and get it done.
I still think though, with a good workout, and the right eating plans, and plan management, you can get sustainable results for a long time, off the workout, without needing to switch to another one.
Some would say the muscles would adapt and get used to it, causing lost efficacy.
I say there is a possible flip reverse there, where the muscles get used to a long standing workout, and therefore, become more efficient at handling the mechanics and loads of the workouts, thereby creating a possible scenario, where more physical change between workouts can be gleaned.
It's a principle that has been hammered in Magazines, and anywhere and everywhere, particularly by people who compete, saying they keep their muscles "guessing", by switching workouts every 2 weeks, and maybe upto 6 weeks, depnding on the individuals take on it.
Thing is, most people who weightlift will switch up anyway, as they cite reasons for it, like it got same old same old, and I was losing focus or drive.
Though the other thing to consider is, some peoples gains stall, because they don't eat enough.
If you're someone who only needs in the early stages, approximately 2,000-2,500 calories, then obviously eating about 3,500-4,000 calories a day, will help initiate a situation, where the individual can create a body, with the potential to get stronger, but also more fatter too, because calories aren't being increased bit by bit as and when required, so too many get eaten when the body isn't needing of them all.
Howeve the stalled gains then become down to having enough daily nutrition, to maintain a certain level of progress, but without increasing caloric intake no more progress can be kickstarted, assuming workouts are up to snuff.
So theory has always been, that if the individual has a good anabolic workout plan, and increases calories as and when needed every few months, can someone really perservere with a good workout, and eating strategy, and still be gaining mass 1, 2, maybe 3 + years down the line?
A challenge for sure, to keep grinding out the same workouts all the time. I do it, because I'm happy with results, and hate changing and thinking up new workouts, so I just keep the same ones to simplify things, and it allows me to get on with it, and get it done.
I still think though, with a good workout, and the right eating plans, and plan management, you can get sustainable results for a long time, off the workout, without needing to switch to another one.
Some would say the muscles would adapt and get used to it, causing lost efficacy.
I say there is a possible flip reverse there, where the muscles get used to a long standing workout, and therefore, become more efficient at handling the mechanics and loads of the workouts, thereby creating a possible scenario, where more physical change between workouts can be gleaned.
Some stalled gains are simply hereditary.
I recall coming back from a catastrophic injury and I was adding just 10 pounds a month to bench even though the lifts were absurdly easy at the lighter weight. One of friends asked me why I was going up so slowly and I responded:
"What's hurry? In ten years at this rate I'll have a 1,335 pound bench."
Of course clearly I would not have a 1,335 pound bench as I would most certainly "stall" or get injured well before that. That's genetics.
I recall coming back from a catastrophic injury and I was adding just 10 pounds a month to bench even though the lifts were absurdly easy at the lighter weight. One of friends asked me why I was going up so slowly and I responded:
"What's hurry? In ten years at this rate I'll have a 1,335 pound bench."
Of course clearly I would not have a 1,335 pound bench as I would most certainly "stall" or get injured well before that. That's genetics.