fitness

Training improvisation

Edited by Giovanni Bruno

What do I do this month? Come on I do the stripping maybe I do for 2 months so I see more results! Then next month we see. Guys don't like it ... I refer to most of the guys who train in the gym and I also talk about those who have been training for years and think they know everything but in the meantime they raise the same 60 Kg on a bench three years ago because they don't progress more ...

The human body at any time of the year has different moments of state of form, of testosterone production, external factors that negatively affect etc. .. without counting that if I do not build, for example, a good basis of strength I cannot build a good mass, so if I don't have a muscular base I can't make a definition! How many kids arrived in June asking "John now we have to make the right definition?" And a smile escapes me because so many of them, maybe they have only been training for a few months, they have muscle mass equal to 0 ... what should I have you define? Or "Giovanni next month you have to do me a super heavy program because I have to put mass!" or "3x8 put mass right?" AH WHAT A PATIENCE !! The training periodization to which we must necessarily refer if we want to program a serious and productive training is the basis of everything, then the currents of thought can vary from person to person, with time and with new tests and experiments, but the guidelines for planning a serious workout must be clear.

The guidelines for good programming should be these:

  • Reconditioning period
  • Preparation period for strength
  • Period of strength
  • Hypertrophy period (mass)
  • Call of strength
  • Hypertrophy period + muscle quality
  • Period dedicated only to muscle quality

Taking care to insert at certain times absolute rest periods (micro-cycles of 7-10) and discharge micro-cycles at least every 3 weeks of training.

You can't train from September to July by improvising. However, without going too specifically, training, the one done properly, is not improvisation, it is not just doing 8 repetitions for the mass, 4 for strength and 12 for definition. It's all much more complicated, this is an exact science because it takes into account many factors, the state of form, of nutrition, of recovery (FUNDAMENTAL), of muscle fibers, of hormones and much, much more. Therefore, my advice is to get help from a personal trainer or an instructor, but be really prepared. Ask him now how he wants to set up the job, if he answers by saying the things I told you, well, if he tells you then we'll see, or maybe next month I'll let you do the rest-pause, then forget it ... Buy yourself a good Training Methodology book and start training seriously!