As 2022 quickly approaches we wanted to share some training inspiration and guidelines to help goal setting for the coming new year.  Consider focusing on turning your weaknesses into strength. What part of your fitness triad needs work? Do you need to trim some weight after the holidays? Have you been lagging in cardio conditioning with the cold weather? Do you lack strength in a body part that needs some help? .Take the time to assess your weaknesses and make a plan for the new year. 

The key to generating physiological progress where none exists is having the knowledge, ability and willingness to institute appropriate changes. Humans are creatures of habit and all of us have preferences and favored ways of doing things. Our habits and patterns form us. As Aristotle noted - "We are what we do repeatedly." If we want to change what we are, physically, we must alter, change, the things we do repeatedly. If the goal is to transform the body to a dramatic degree, training modes and nutritional modes need to be transformed to a dramatic degree. If the body is stagnant, unchanging, continuing to do what you are doing will not, cannot, induce radical improvements in physique and performance. To generate progress, measurable, mathematical progress, there must be some sort of physiological inducement. More of the same is not an inducement.

Slight changes to the current exercise and/or nutritional template, minor adjustments to what you are doing, are insufficient to unstick stagnation. Slight changes are simply different flavors of what you are doing. What is needed is a dramatically different direction ... assuming you have a dramatically different direction. Most trainees have but one way of training and one nutritional mode: elite iron men, true transformation masters, shapeshifters, have a dozen training and nutritional strategies to select from. When a proven-effective routine runs out of progress. It is rotated out of the line-up and placed back in the closet of proven effective methods of future use.

Check out these educational articles on training and nutrition to amp progress in the new year. 

 

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Stacy Gallagher
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