Quick and Easy Training

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See how quickly you decided to read this post! We all want everything to be quick and easy and then wonder why nothing seems satisfying. Something is worth what it costs you. That is why a Jaguar is worth more to me than to a movie star who can afford any car(s) he wants. Same deal with training and working out. Very few people ever get the results they want because very few people ever put any real effort into training. I hear it every day- “why aren’t I getting any bigger”? Answer- you aren’t working out very hard.

So when I came across this article over at Men’s Health, I had to pass it on. Great stuff. Here’s the deal, you don’t have to immediately change your whole workout, but you would be smart to read through it and start to implement these principles.

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“Look at that guy on the leg-extension machine,” he says. “You never isolate muscles like that in the real world. . . .”

 ”See that kid in front of the mirror doing dumbbell curls? He wants to get big, but he should train to get strong. He’d get double the benefit in half the time. . . .”

 ”And how about all those people on the treadmills watching TV? Do you think they’re really out of their comfort zones?”

 That there’s more designer water in here than sweat gripes him. “I don’t want to sound negative,” Dos Remedios says, “but most people don’t understand training fundamentals or what it means to train hard.“

The guy I’m training right now doesn’t realize it but what I’m doing is getting him comfortable with being outside his comfort zone. Once you are comfortable being uncomfortable, you can do all kinds of things you never thought you could do.

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“Progressive overload” means spending more time in your discomfort zone. “It’s the most basic of all strength-training principles,” Dos Remedios says, “but it’s the one people understand least. The human body is amazing. The more work you do, the more you will be capable of doing over time.” He’s talking about manipulating loads and volumes during strength and cardio workouts for continuous progress.