What is it about fitness discussions that always lead to arguments?
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Originally Posted by HOOT
It should be sarcastic because doing the same routine every two days will not help you at all. You should be switching your routine, almost completely, every few months. Different weights, different exercises and different orders will get you the best results in the long run.
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The whole concept of switching it up is usually put in place for beginners as a psychological tool to help them keep going. Changing up your exercises, order, frequency, and everything else increases efficacy.
That being said, it's periodization which will help augment muscle gains. It's not necessarily switching up exercises (although obviously different exercises work muscles different ways, and you should have a lot of variation) but training with linear or non-linear periodization, which involves changing the intensity of the workout (ie 10 reps to 7 reps to 4 reps) to work all fiber types and allow adequate recovery. It's been shown to significantly help in resistance training.
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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
Completely false. You get the best results by doing the same things, with the exception of incrementally increasing the weight, until you have completely exhausted your gains which can take years.
Switching your routine is what pussies do when things get hard.
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GTF trolling again, and trolling hard.
It's probably best to ignore him; you could dominate him in an argument and he'll persist.