| When you think of resistance training, what types of | | | | become mundane and down-right un-enjoyable after a |
| things come to mind? Probably many things: Cybex, | | | | while, and when you start to get bored, you start |
| Hammer Strength, machines, barbells, dumbbells, | | | | cutting corners and slacking: your body and your mind |
| medicine balls, stability balls, resistance bands, free | | | | need something new periodically; a new challenge, a |
| weights, the human body, etc. With so many choices, | | | | new experience. That's when the typical person will |
| how do you know what is right for you? To answer | | | | usually jump into defensive mode, sighting their workout |
| this question, I would have to assess you in person, so I | | | | from high school football, or how a friend who happens |
| advise you to meet with a personal trainer who can | | | | to be a gym rat told them to do this forever; basically |
| help to determine what is right for you. What I can | | | | any defense they can muster to save themselves |
| answer, without knowing or seeing you, is how | | | | from ego-bruising. The bottom line is that the body likes |
| frequently you should change your workout. | | | | and needs change, it thrives on change. I will tell you |
| A lot of people in the weight room do not change up | | | | the same thing I tell them: you should change your |
| their weight workouts ever. I have been in the gym | | | | workout routine every 6 to 8 weeks. |
| atmosphere for many years now and have seen the | | | | During the 6 to 8 weeks of having someone on a |
| same guys come in and go through the same exact | | | | specific program or routine, I try to encourage them to |
| workout day, after day, after day. It is not a wonder | | | | progress as much as possible. Every succeeding |
| that I have had many of them seek me out frustrated | | | | workout I develop is geared towards helping them to |
| because they are not progressing, sometimes | | | | advance to a higher level; they may gripe and groan a |
| because they are even regressing. So I sit them down | | | | little, but they know it is for the better. |
| and ask them what their workouts consist of, and then | | | | So my advice to you is to get started with a workout, |
| proceed to tell them the following: the body adapts, we | | | | push it for 6 to 8 weeks, and then find another |
| were built to adapt - that's how we as humans, like | | | | workout to do for the next 6 to 8 weeks etc..! You |
| any other species, learn to adjust and survive, even | | | | can follow Rob on Just look for ExerciseMan; he talks |
| evolve. Not to mention that the same workout can | | | | about diet, exercise, and over-all health. |