Workout Consistency
Now that our office and gym is renovated, the holiday hours at the local gym can’t ruin my workouts for the week. It’s pretty nice to have the freedom to workout any time I want without having to work around the busy time at the gym, or holiday hours etc.
Consistency with your workout is the cornerstone of achieving real muscle growth, and getting the look and shape you desire.
Each Workout Adds to the Last
This got me thinking of how inconsistent most people really are with their workouts.
When I talk to people about working out, it seems rare to find an individual who has been working out seriously for more than a few years without a major layoff of some sort.
In some cases it’s a major injury, or some other physical ailment that has put them on the sidelines. But for the most part people just don’t stick with it, they’re just not consistent.
It’s more common to find people who workout for a year or two, then fall off the wagon for a year or two than it is to find someone who is dedicated and consistently going to the gym year in and year out with no major time off.
Part of this consistency is also a consistency with the style of the workout and the goal of the workout. Some people abandon muscle building for other forms of training like athletic training, or they get into running and the like.
In other words, being consistently inconsistent doesn't count!
These departures from muscle building are fine if you really want to explore those other styles of training.
But in the end, the more consistent you are with your training, and specifically moving towards a goal of building your best body the better your results will be.
It seems that there is at least some cumulative effect to training. In other words, the number of sets and reps you do each workout matter…and the number of workouts you do each week matter…and each month, but also each year.
If two people of the same general height and size set out to gain as much muscle as they can…10 years later the person with the better results is likely the person who simply was more consistent with getting their workouts done week after week, month after month, and year after year.
It really is a lifestyle and not a phase that you just go through at some point in your life.
This doesn’t mean it has to take over you life and become your identity, but rather it’s just a small part of what makes up what you are.
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December 27th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Consistency is key. I think it really comes down to how much you want to achieve your goal and this determines whether you will stick to your plan or not.
Greg
December 30th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I agree. I have made some of my best progress this past year using the Adonis workouts. I attribute this to the fact that I have a solid program, and don’t need “plan hop” anymore. This has freed up more time, and energy to put into my actual workout. People need to decide what their goal is, find a solid program that meets their needs, and begin grinding it out. That’s how to get killer results!
December 30th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Wouldn’t consistency also be important to get yourself ramped up on the anabolic sensitivity curve? The same amount of work spread out thinly over the course of several years as opposed to packed tightly and efficiently over the course of months would never get you to climp the anabolic continuum for your body to grow muscle, yeah?
January 4th, 2011 at 11:47 am
True words! Consistency is key. In order to remain consistent you need positive energy, a vision, a purpose and focus. Otherwise you’ll burn out. Martin Berkhan over at lean gains says he only owrks out for 2 hours week. But he eats right and he’s been doing it for several years. So the guy is jacked because he does the right things with constency and he’s lasted the long haul. Instant gratification usually leads to instant loss of motivation…
January 4th, 2011 at 11:49 am
By the way coffee and doughnuts for breakfast look like the key to a jacked physique congratulations on proving what you can do witha low calorie diet and hard work with the weights. What was your sprint to active rest ratio on your HIIT workouts? Did you make sure to secrete a lot of leptin at least once a week to “trick” your metabolism to keep burning fat as opposed to muscle? HA!
January 6th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
John,
Is it true that a muscle’s circumference is limited by the length of its belly and how does this apply to steroid users?
January 7th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Jason, yes at it’s extreme the length of the muscle is the final determining factor to the cross sectional area or ‘circumference’ that it could eventually grow to.
Even heavy steroid users can only get each muscle to a limited size until the given joint it controls can no longer move. So in reality the muscle could just grow and grow, but the bone structure and length of bones is what limits how much more muscle could fit on a given body.
January 8th, 2011 at 5:32 am
Thanks!
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