Comments on: How often should you change your workout?

By: April

April — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:27:40 +0000

I agree. Sometimes it can be tough to make yourself stick the extra weights on the bar, after becoming comfortable and confident at your current level, but you do need to constantly challenge yourself. It’s even better when you find out it wasn’t so hard, and that the extra weight just made you “feel” it more and you’ll stick with that for a while. No more turning back. I did that this morning. I might regret it next week, lol – but now at least I’ll know what I’m capable of and continue on moving forward.

QUESTION: I was recently wondering, what’s better for you, or does it matter – you work out say 3 times a week for 2 hours, a total of 6 hours, or say 4 days a week, or even 5 days a week for a total of 6 hours? Would you recommend more sessions, less time – or more time, less sessions. Sometimes I get busy and so to make up for it, I’ll work out longer, but I don’t know if I should be making myself get to the gym the day before instead, or if it’s makes a different. Sorry for the long winded question. THANKS!!!

By: Jewels

Jewels — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:23:31 +0000

It’s great to finally read an article about what really works. I am a creature of habit and dread change. Then when you hear someone say change is NOT always a good thing it makes you feel better. Thanks for being so straight forward with what you had to say. To bad I already did my workout for the day because I would love to take your advice right now.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:48:42 +0000

I always believe that the exercise that you’ll actually DO is the best kind. Great article, thanks!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:51:55 +0000

Thanks for this article. I’m not big into changing things and I’ve often doubted the wisdom of such advice. Since I’ve gone from 265 pounds to 115 pounds on a stable routine, I think I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. It’s been working for years, why rock the boat?

By: Navin

Navin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:29:15 +0000

dude thanks a lot for your advice man….it really helped me a lot….

By: aCalorieCounter

aCalorieCounter — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:38:07 +0000

Swayze: I know exactly what you mean both about the constant “change is good” articles and the dread-like feeling of certain workouts after a certain period of time. THAT is when change is good.

Jim: Impossible question to answer without knowing the specifics of the workout.

Clint: Definitely keep the same order every time as, once again, this is a big part of keeping things consistent. When it does come time for a change, switching around exercise order is one way of doing it. However, changes like doing smaller exercises before bigger ones is never a good idea, even as part of “change.”

By: Clint

Clint — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:56:36 +0000

I’ve recently begun reading you articles. They keep me interested and are well written. Thank you for all the knowledge you share. I feel it has giving me a better understanding of what I’m doing. I was wondering though if your suppose to do your excercises in the same order evrytime or mix them up? What do you think? Thanks!

By: jim

jim — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:57:46 +0000

when doing very heavy weights is it better to train 3 days a week or is it better to cut back to 2 days a week.
thanking you jim from down under

By: Swayze

Swayze — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:02:28 +0000

Great article! I see so many articles advocating the “constant change is good” approach. This kind of advice is usually directed towards women, I might add.

I have been doing the same routine for the past 9 weeks and I have seen really great results. However, just this past week, I was really dreading my weight training workouts and it was affecting my intensity level.

For this week, I decided to change my routine. Instead of doing heavy lifting, I am doing all bodyweight exercises. I still get a pretty intense workout and it’s nice to have something new.

By: aCalorieCounter

aCalorieCounter — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:04:53 +0000

Derek: That’s another good point that I completely left out. It’s so good in fact that it actually reminded me of a whole other point that I failed to mention… the people who become obsessed with doing the “best” workout there is, and constantly change what they’re doing every time they read/hear about some other workout that sounds “better” than theirs. I think I’ll edit in something about that later.