Muscle Confusion? Ray Wright making a difference

[Mike]

Originally Posted by superbowlbound

This should be fantastic for the team. The concept of muscle confusion is this: When you begin a workout regiment, you start to see results very quickly, be it in shed pounds, increased strength, whatever. Then, as you begin to settle in to your workout routine, your gains level off, because your body adapts to the excercises, so they become, in a sense, easier. Thus you would have to increase the intensity of the workouts in order to see the same results, which can result in injury. In order to combat that, you cycle workout regiments in blocks of a few to several weeks, so that every month to 6 weeks, you're doing new excercises that use new stabilizer muscles, jump starting the effects and increasing overall fitness. So instead of doing free weights, you work with medicine balls, bands, plyometrics, etc.

I have a buddy that used to be a powerlifter, so he's a beast, but had gotten kinda fat. works out all the time, but still, kinda fat. He got that p90x thing off the tv, which is based on muscle confusion, and got shredded in 3 months, as in the dude could be on the cover of men's health. Muscle confusion is legit.

Great post and reply. I asked my trainer about muscle confusion this morning. I wondered because I am always doing different exercises for all different muscle groups, and post made me bring it up. You captured the essence of muscle confusion perfectly. I've been training with that method and it has made a huge difference from the usual stuff I had been doing on my own for years.