 Joel YounkinsPhysical Preparation Coach In the last blog post, Why Most Training Programs Fail, I may have left you a little more confused than providing you with answers. Be patient and be in it for long haul, not all great things come at once ;) So here's the thing with stress and training. Training is just stress to the body, just like rushing to work, riding a roller coaster, going through a bad break up, or getting in a car crash. It's all just stress (sound familiar?). Your body just sees stress and it wants to protect itself from it. It doesn't know that you're riding a roller coaster, stuck in traffic, or that you're trying to bench press a new personal record. It's trying to do one thing and one thing only, at all times...And that is to survive! When it comes to physical training, you have to remove your emotions for a minute and think how your body thinks. Get on the bodies' level, and then you can get back into your mind and emotions. When you bench press, you think "I really want to lift this weight, this will be so cool, don't give up!" You're body sees it as an external threat to survival. "It thinks, there's something that's trying to break me, or even worse, kill me." So here is what happens... You lifted heavy enough weight to cause enough stress for your body to see it as a threat to its survival. You're body then adapts to that stress by making it stronger, so that the next time it sees that event again, it will be prepared for that same stress. This is how you get stronger and build some muscles. Now, say you don't bench for a long time after that, because maybe you were so pumped you hit your goal, that you said, "Okay my work is done here." And then, 6 months later you missed training so you tried to bench press again and you noticed you were significantly weaker this time. I thought my body would be prepared for this event called the bench press again?! Well, what happens is that it was prepared, but because it didn't see that stress again, of lets just say 21 days, it started to forget about that event and started focusing on other things to survive from. Therefore, your bench press performance began to decay :'( This is fundamentally how training works. You strategically stress it as a means to create a future outcome of adaption. If you don't use it, you lose it. Yes, that's a very real concept! For all fitness abilities, this is how it works. Each ability has different ways it needs stressed. This is why not just knowing training is enough, you actually need to really know the human body and how it responds to stress. Forget exercises, programs, and rep ranges, that is not training, that's just a small part of it. The key to getting great results is knowing how the body responds to stress. And then the next level is knowing how the stress of training all gets put together, how your other life stress impacts your training stress, and how to train certain fitness abilities together. It really is a lot to digest and it's also the same reason why most Bachelor Degree students feel extremely lost when they start learning about training in their internships. But, here is what I can share with you right now today, that will help you with optimizing stress and your training!
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