When an individual suddenly and consistently trains the body intensely using new methods the body

responds. I’ve seen people obtain incredible results from lousy exercise systems by generating
incredible training intensity and applying Herculean physical effort. I’ve seen other people obtain
terrible results using incredibly effective exercise strategies as a direct result of sub-maximal effort
and piss-poor application. The best of both worlds is to combine a superior training regimen with
gutbusting effort and consistent application.
Result-producing exercise routines and effective diets need to be rotated on a regularly reoccurring
basis. Using a favored mode, method or tactic exclusively and ceaselessly, is stagnation-on-a-stick.
Sameness is the progress killer and the athletic elite accept the inevitability of becoming stagnant.
They actually anticipate stagnation ahead of time and figure its arrival into future plans. They know
that when stagnation arrives the best way to rekindle momentum is to construct a new exercise or
dietary approach that contrasts dramatically with what they have been doing.
One mistake repeatedly made by fitness buffs (too clever by half) is to alter the current effective
approach ever-so-slightly. They do not understand the need for a dramatic alteration. Dramatic
contrast jolts the body and stagnation morphs into momentum. Slight modifications are easily
neutralized by a body that has figured out the status quo antidote. It is a relatively easy thing for the
organism to adjust to a slight change in the current status quo. It takes guts to jettison a program
that
has been proven effective. It is psychologically difficult to toss a system we’ve grown to love. But we
don’t throw it away forever: categorize it as effective and simply set it back on the shelf for future
use.
The athletic elite have an arsenal of proven effective training and eating regimens, hung in their
philosophic closets like a row of clean shirts on hangers.
Don’t Turn a Once Effective System into a Religion
People fall into a reoccurring trap: they obtain spectacular results from a particular resistance,
nutrition or cardio program and attempt to turn the effective regimen into a religion. They become
acolytes and adherents and feel compelled to use the precise regimen that worked for them at one
time in the past. They develop an unhealthy allegiance that often veers into religious zealotry—this
despite the mathematical fact that any meaningful results have long since dried up. They refuse to
change, or if they do change, the changes are so minor, so cosmetic and minute that the antithesis
remains virtually indistinguishable from the original thesis. This rearranging of the deck chairs never
works.
Periodically institute a complete and total overhaul of what you are doing. To trigger results
requires significant deviation from current protocol. Real results require real change. At best,
continued usage maintains the status quo. Someone said stupidity is repeating the same behavior
over
and over while expecting different results. Stimulating progress requires the institution of a new
regimen that significantly contrasts to the current status quo