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HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU CHANGE YOUR WORKOUT?

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There are tons of different opinions on this. All I can do is give you my opinion as well as the reasons behind it. Hopefully it will make sense to you. It certainly does to me, but you'll have to decide.   So to start with, I remember I used to work at a gym where there was this other trainer about the same age as me. He always changed his client workouts every workout. I don't know if I every saw his clients doing the same thing twice. He would justify it by saying that it's for muscle confusion and to keep things fresh and new all the time, thereby relieving boredom and staleness. Then on the other side, there was me where I like to repeat programs for a while (at least a few weeks anyway). These are of course vastly different approaches to training. I'm not going to say flat out that mine is the better way. It depends on the individual, their goals, their reg...

AT HOME WORKOUTS

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We are currently dealing with the Coronavirus Pandemic which is leaving a huge number of people stuck indoors at home with nowhere to go. Unfortunately this is just something that we all have to deal with. However that doesn't mean that your fitness has to suffer. In fact, some of my best workouts ever have been right in the comfort of my own home. And of course as an in-home personal trainer, I train people exclusively in their homes. But for those of you who are accustomed to the gym and need to have some at-home workouts, here they are.   One of the challenges of doing in-home workouts is obviously you don't have all the variety of equipment that you'll have in a gym. Therefore you need to sometimes get creative. You may very well have dumbbells, a barbell, a bench, and a stationary bike. But generally that's about it. Fortunately that's all you need! Seri...