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T H E P U R P O S E F U L P R I M I T I V E
Better To Use a Lousy System with
Great Intensity Than A Sophisticated
System Halfheartedly
When an individual suddenly and consistently trains the body intensely using new methods
the body responds. I’ve seen people obtain incredible results from lousy exercise systems
by generating incredible training intensity and applying Herculean physical effort. I’ve
seen other people obtain terrible results using incredibly effective exercise strategies as a
direct result of sub-maximal effort and piss-poor application. The best of both worlds is to
combine a superior training regimen with gut-busting effort and consistent application.
Result-producing exercise routines and effective diets need to be rotated on a regularly
reoccurring basis. Using a favored mode, method or tactic exclusively and ceaselessly, is
stagnation-on-a-stick. Sameness is the progress killer and the athletic elite accept the
inevitability of becoming stagnant. They actually anticipate stagnation ahead of time and
figure its arrival into future plans. They know that when stagnation arrives the best way to
rekindle momentum is to construct a new exercise or dietary approach that contrasts dramatically
with what they have been doing.
One mistake repeatedly made by fitness buffs (too clever by half) is to alter the current
effective approach ever-so-slightly. They do not understand the need for a dramatic alteration.
Dramatic contrast jolts the body and stagnation morphs into momentum. Slight
modifications are easily neutralized by a body that has figured out the status quo antidote.
It is a relatively easy thing for the organism to adjust to a slight change in the current status
quo. It takes guts to jettison a program that has been proven effective. It is psychologically
difficult to toss a system we’ve grown to love. But we don’t throw it away forever: categorize
it as effective and simply set it back on the shelf for future use. The athletic elite have
an arsenal of proven effective training and eating regimens, hung in their philosophic closets
like a row of clean shirts on hangers.
Don’t Turn a Once Effective System
into a Religion
People fall into a reoccurring trap: they obtain spectacular results from a particular resistance,
nutrition or cardio program and attempt to turn the effective regimen into a religion.
They become acolytes and adherents and feel compelled to use the precise regimen that
worked for them at one time in the past. They develop an unhealthy allegiance that often
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