Strength Precinct

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL.
While dad life has taken over, I am still here coaching, and I am still helping people become the strongest version of themselves. Ben had a long history of training and had made serious gains on his own. As he started a new chapter in his life and work took over he was struggling to find his mojo and reclaim his former glory. Here’s what Ben had to say about working together…(do the swipe)

With so many variations and machines available to us these days, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with
them all.
Essentially, they all have their place, any exercise is better than none. If you want to make the most of your time in the gym there’s a few factors you should consider.
1. Central nervous fatigue.
What exercises will make you more tired the fastest? Compound exercises (squats,
deadlifts, bent over rows etc) are more neurologically demanding so they will gas you out faster with less load.
2. Contractile demand.
What exercises allow you to move more weight safely? Think about how much you can leg press compared to a squat.
3. Metabolic stress.
What exercises can isolate muscles better, pushing all them sweet metabolites into the muscle to make a muscle building environment?

Stay tuned for dates for my hypertrophy workshop to make the most of
your time at the gym.

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How often should you change your gym routine?

Very rarely, I’d say maybe 4-5 times a year.

If you are a weights based trainer it will take at least a couple of weeks to dial in a movement, and if you are training optimally (balls to the wall heavy sets) it’s going to take a further few weeks to learn how to load up those muscles with a load that challenges the muscle fibres to their full capabilities.

Remember the sweet sweet rapid gainz you made on exercises when you first started them? Going up in weight for nearly every new exercise for the first few weeks? If this were hypertrophy gainz you would have added 4-5kg of lean mass in a matter of weeks, if this were the case we could switch exercises every 5 weeks and continually pile on muscle, aint that the dream.

Unfortunately this cruel world doesn’t work like this, that increase in weight you see in the initial stages of any program is skill acquisition, your body learning how to do things more efficiently. Eventually your body will be as close to as efficient as it can be and will require external stimulus to create progression. We create this external stimulus with the weights we make our muscles move, the more weight we can safely handle, the more stimulus and adaptation we can create.

You need to give yourself time to learn how to create the maximum amount of load with the correct stimulus (proper form). This could take weeks or even months, but the reward of time invested will be worth it. After all, the results you get after 10 years are more important than the results of 10 weeks.