For every exercise you do, how many variations can you come up with?

Let’s look at the deadlift for an example. Here are a few of your options.

• Powerlifting Style
• Olympic Style
• Sumo
• Snatch Grip
• Romanian

This is not even a a complete list, there are plenty of other variations out there.

It is important to have variety in your training but at the same time I don’t think it is necessary to to change the base exercise, in this case the deadlift vary often. All you need to do to keep your exercise variety high and boredom low, is to change the variation of the exercise you are doing.

Give it a go.

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When people ask for a program to be designed, a percentage want to be given the most advanced, high tech training program available, when what they really need is a relatively “simple”, well designed program catered to their training age.

What do I mean by this? I think that people are always looking for the latest thing or the edge to give them the results they are after. They want to be doing something new and interesting all the time. Having some variety is not wrong but using advanced or other inappropriate techniques at the wrong stage of your training life, can come at the expense of the foundational strength and size gains you would receive from a program that is more appropriate to you.

In relation to training age, just because you have been doing weights for 5 years, it doesn’t mean that you have a training age of 5 years. Depending on the progress you have made, the resistance you are using and the program progression you have gone through, your training age could be anything from 6 months to 5 years. It is important to remember that programs should be tailored to you, not be based on what some bodybuilding superstar is doing.

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Laree over at IronOnline has posted a short but very useful FAQ on human anatomy that is relevant to the weight trainer. If you are training, I think that is is important to have at least a basic understanding of human anatomy.  Check it out here.

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Wayne