Changing up the Stale Gym Routine
Loved this article from Men’s Journal.
As someone who has continually plateaued at the gym and subsequently become bored, this is a great learning into other ways of thinking of exercise. I’ve never been really sure when to use barbells, dumbells, or machines, and typically, I’d default to machines. Anyway, I changed it up and did my first strength training last night and will continue for the forseeable future.
This was my favorite passage from the article:
It can be hard to believe a true strength coach the first time he tells you that by pressing and dead-lifting on even days, squatting and doing chin-ups on odd days, avoiding all other exercises, and adding a little to the bar each time, you’ll be stronger than you’ve ever been in only a month’s time. Thanks to the fitness industry, we’re so conditioned to equate sophistication with complexity — and to think we’ve got to “work each body part” — that our gut just says, No way; that can’t work. But it works like magic, and the entire body hardens up in unison.
