all exercise is good!
I’d like to preface this little post by emphasising that I am a big believer in doing exercise just for the fun of it. Exercise does not have to be programmed, it does not need to be structured, and it can, and sometimes should, feel like “playtime” at school. After all, we are ultimately just bigger versions of the kids that we were at school. If you do exercise and enjoy it, you’re winning in my book.
However, if you’re setting out to complete something meaningful that accomplishes things, particularly when those things are difficult to achieve, you almost always need a plan. This applies to pretty much everything in life. Do you need to get somewhere? OK, you better plan the journey. Do you want to increase your savings? You’ll need a financial plan to see where you can cut back or how you can earn more. Health and fitness is no different. You’re looking to lose weight? Ok cool, how? Looking to put on muscle? Excellent. What’s the plan? Want to improve your fitness? You guessed it, we want to know the plan. These things simply do not happen by accident. Random workouts = random results.
the benefits of a plan
Here are three major benefits that you can expect from following a workout plan:
1. Efficiency
Plans get you to places quicker - think of them like a satellite navigation system that suggests the fastest route. They provide tried-and-tested structure and direction, so instead of aiming at random and worrying about wrong turns and accidents, you just get to drive the car and enjoy the journey.
2. Accountability
You are at the gym for a specific task: to get you closer to your goal and by purchasing a workout plan, you have paid money to get you closer to that goal. The financial investment makes you much more likely to complete the workout because you feel like you need to get value from that product - you become accountable to the plan. You’re also accountable to what is on the plan (including the hard stuff *ahem Bulgarian Split Squats*) and much less likely to just do the stuff that you enjoy or feel like doing on that day.
3. Progression
You can track your progress as you go and make alterations when necessary based on the data that you collect. Repetition is important when trying to make changes to your body. Progression over time is what causes your body to adapt and change, this progression can come in many forms; such as technique improvements, more weight on the bar, or the overall amount of work that you are doing during a workout. Progressions such as these take practice, repetition, and data. If you are constantly changing the workouts that you are doing, you are making it much more difficult for yourself to track any of your progression or in fact make progress at all.
get planning
Achieving things that are challenging very rarely happens by chance. And on those rare occasions that it does, you often have no idea or record of how/what got you there or how to replicate it to achieve good things again. In my experience, following a plan, achieving results, and documenting things going in the right direction are some of the biggest drivers of further results for clients. Motivation is highest when you can see that you’re constantly traveling closer to your goal. Put a plan in place, and if you’d like some help doing so, drop me an email, or for a well-balanced, pre-made strength and conditioning workout plan that is suitable for all, check out Bulletproof by clicking below:
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