Fighting Stress With Stress?
Fighting Stress With Stress?
Why Many Current Training Methods Aren't Helping Us
If you want to get results from your training, you're not going to do it by taking it easy.
It takes a lot of hard work and commitment.
Which is why, I can only assume, the trend in fitness is these hard, but ultimately useless training sessions everyone is doing.
Okay, I'm talking in absolutes.
They work for some people, but I doubt it will work for you.
These training sessions have been designed for a few reasons:
We're short on time - so we need to work at a higher intensity to get results
We need to burn lots of calories to stay slim
The sign of a good session is how much you sweat
There are a few problems with these training programs though:
They're designed for everyone, and everyone rarely gets good results i.e. they get average results
The calories you burn can easily be undone in one meal
They completely miss fundamental training principles
They add more stress to people's lives
This last point is related to our apparent lack of time.
We combat this, by doing highly intense training over and over again.
And we all know the recovery you're doing, and the recovery needed from those sessions, won't be the same (I'm not blaming you, my recovery is less than it should be too).
So we're just making things worse for people by adding more stress.
When you're young, it's less of a problem.
But as you get older, it's not always about maximum intensity all of the time.
At least if you want to get results.
It does actually become about working smarter.
When I'm coaching clients over 35, I'm not trying to kill them every session.
In fact, a session itself is full of very short bursts of intensity, followed by rest.
And we're not training every day of the week.
And we're not at full intensity everyday of the program either.
There are some days, based on sleep and stress at work and in life, that we actually hold back and focus on just doing the work and maintaining consistency, but not breaking records.
Meanwhile, in these high intensity group sessions, the music is pumping, you're sweating non-stop and people just walk out without addressing their underlying issues, again.
This training does provide benefits, there is no doubt about that.
But for it to be the only type of training to be done on a regular basis sets people up to fail.
It actually adds stress to people's lives which limits their results.
There are much better training options for most people.
Until next time,
Marco
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