Keep Your Body Guessing

Why is it important to vary your workouts? Simply put, if you keep repeating the same workout day in and day out, your body will adapt to that one pattern of movement and your workouts will plateau.

As we all know, in everyday life we ask our bodies to perform a variety of different movements. So why not vary your training program in a manner that will teach your body to handle all the unexpected? A program that incorporates functional movement will keep your body moving in all directions, calling on your muscles and joints to work in unison.

To visualize this, think about having to pick up a heavy box and place it overhead. You must first squat, then lift the box, balance it and lift it overhead. Will you be ready to handle these complex movements? If you're trained to, you will.  If you're not, you'll join the millions of others who complain about injuring their backs or knees.

So ... let's get with the program! Get off all the machines and start moving the entire body. Expect the unexpected. Incorporate cardio, weights, pushes, pulls, torques, speed, power, intensity and variation.