How structured are your workouts?
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How structured are your workouts?
Im with Chris. Structured but I will throw extra sets, reps, or add lifts depending on how I feel. Some nights I feel like shit and stick to the program and just call it a night
The Primary barbell movements are planned and the secondary building movements are typically instinctive and can change once I arrive to The Dungeon.
I see a lot of people train "instinctively" and it leads them away from what is productive to what is easy.
I think instinctive training should be reserved for unexpected tweaks and pains midway through a workout but you should otherwise have a pretty distinct plan of assault
If I like the way an exercise feels (i love flat db press for example) but if I'm stalling I'll modulate frequency and volume before I admit defeat and swap to flat BB. It's hard to get proficient at an exercise if you are changing it prematurely. I believe that if you swap exercises every two weeks you will see great gains for those specific exercises because you are going through the initial neurological adaptation to a new movement rather than a hypertrophic adaptation.
I basically followed my original routine, that centered around the "Core" movements for the first few years before exploring other options. After that, pretty much EVERY workout was put together just prior to entering the gym usually while having my breakfast.
Dorian was also drugged to the eyeballs and had genetics that no one else can ever mimic. The exception never proves the rule!
You can hit the same movements but in a different order on different days to prevent adaptation. That was my point. I don't think everything should radically change every two weeks, that makes zero sense! We are on the same page.
My bad beast. I re-read your post and picked up on the sacasm this time lol
Well course but drugs help you with recover. They do not make exercise stimulus fresh everytime you hit it so the drug argument does not work in this. Of course there is an exception to every rule but there is thing called neurological adaptation of a movement. That is why when you do a new movement for the first time you are able to move up in weight each week fairly quick before leveling off. So changing exercises too frequently is not good at all. changing it up every 4-6 weeks sure, but changing it up every workout is just not the best approach esp for strength.
Def can change in different order. We are on the same page for the most part.