Fitness Routines vs. Fitness Chaos - How to Get the Most Out of Your Confusion

Fitness Routines vs. Fitness Chaos -
How to Get the Most Out of Your Confusion
Daniel's Endurance Elite Fitness Conditioning System can be found at http://danielmazanec.com

This article will help you create your own fitness programs, and be confident you will make the gains you desire.

Do you ever wish that you could break out of your fitness routine rut, i.e. doing the same over and over again, yet you feel you don't know how to create those great trainer type workouts? Now you can. And you can make up your own routines with the confidence that you will be pushing yourself in the right directions.

The Benefits of Fitness Chaos - Muscle Confusion
Lately, there has been a push for variation in your daily workouts. It's as if we're never supposed to do the same routine twice. "Oo, that would lock the routine into your muscles," they say, or "Oo, that would be too boring."

And that can be true. In fact, it is a great challenge to your body to have to meet and beat toughness with regularity. Great stuff, indeed. It's great for your confidence. It's great for your conditioning. It's great for your ego.

But what about static toughness? What if you suddenly find that, with all your working out, your still not very strong?

Fitness Routines - Muscle Stability
During your muscle chaos routines, do you ever find yourself not going "full range of motion" with your exercises? It can be difficult, while being kicked in the ass by your trainer to go harder and faster, to touch your chin to the floor with each pushup, to touch your toes with each V-Up abdominal exercise, or go all the way down in a side squat.

For the purpose of developing pure strength, you must also take the time, in a routine, to work each exercise to it's fullest extent. Without that, you will truly only be half trained.

Some fear that they may suffer repetitive motion injury during these strength building routines. Perhaps, injury is a concern during any form of exercise. On the other hand, if your muscles, major and supporting, tendons, and ligaments are strong enough to begin with, the likelihood of injury becomes less and less.

"That's Great, Meathead. Now, What About Creating My Own Routines?"
Here's what I recommend. Let's pretend that you have a regular cardio-kickboxing session every Monday and Wednesday. After each session, before you forget, quickly write down those exercsies that your trainer had you perform. Ask your trainer what those exercises are called so that you will have a name for them. Then, on the other five days of the week, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, etc, practice those exercises, one after the other. Split them up, one kind of pushups, then one kind of abdominals, then one kind of legs. Then rotate back to pushups, yet a different kind of pushup. This rotation will give the muscles you just used time to rest before stressing them again.

It's as simple as that.

No Lolly-Gagging
You may now ask, "But I don't get the same cardio workout doing routines as I do with chaos training." That's right. It's a different type of exercise. Routines are for perfection of form and strength building. But you mustn't plug along while you're doing them. Keep your number of repetitions at a difficult level. When ten of each gets easy, go to twenty. When twenty gets easy, go to thirty. And don't rest much between sets. Ten to fifteen seconds tops, perhaps, just long enough to take a sip of water. Trust me, you'll be huffing and puffing well enough!

If This Is All That Trainers Do, Why Am I Paying So Much For A Trainer?
Only you can answer that. I've trained both ways, with and without a trainer. Sometimes its good to have someone kicking your ass - if you don't have the drive to do it yourself. Often times, if your trainer has set a pace for you and it becomes ingrained, you will workout on your own at that same pace, for a while, at least. Then it would help to have a few more sessions with a trainer. A good trainer will always help to keep you on track, but a good, healthy conscience can do the same.

"Gee, Daniel, Thanks For All The Info. Will I Ever Be As Big And Strong As You?"
You're welcome. And, sure you can be as big and strong as me, but only if you work at it. You'll need to set the definite goal first. Then you'll have to set about when you can fit your exercise into your daily schedule. It's your will and it's your way. But, you gotta have the will first. And don't worry about "big and strong", by the way. I don't. Big and strong is only a by-product of doing the exercises on a regular basis.

What About Rest? Will I Lose Strength By Taking a Day Off?
Absolutely not, if it's just one day. Giving your body a chance to rest is the best way to make huge, rapid gains. In music, you may have heard that the silence between notes is louder than the notes themselves. So it is true with exercise. That day off may make you stronger than another day of muscle pulverizing. Fresh muscles perform better than tired, stressed muscles any day of the week. And so it goes with fitness routines vs. fitness chaos. Break your routine vs. chaos schedule, as well. Give yourself a rest on a day that you would normally kick your ass, just to break up the monotony. But don't do that too often. It's best to always keep a schedule. It's the only way to keep going forward. And it's the only way to be able to measure your progress.


So, collect exercises: what you get from your trainer, and what you get from watching others. Heck, buy a few books on exercises. (There is one that I can personally recommend.) Then make up a workout of those exercises that are new or that you have trouble performing. Alternate between muscle groups, pushups, abs, legs, back, and neck. And keep it moving, don't rest too much.

Good luck!

Daniel Mazanec is a fitness trainer in Torrance California. He specializes in bodyweight calisthinec training and self defense. He has been in the martial arts/fitness industry since 1984, and is certified with ISSA. Daniel has written three fitness manuals that make up his Endurance Elite Fitness Conditioning System.

Daniel's Endurance Elite Fitness Conditioning System can be found at http://danielmazanec.com

Daniel also has a fitness blog: http://danielmazanec.com/blog

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