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vegetus25
12-26-2008, 07:39 PM
Hey guys,

I usually do a variety of push-ups, squats, rows, chins in a workout. I came across some articles on the net advising to stick w/ one type of exercise per workout. For example, instead of doing standard, Atlas, and elevated. push-ups in one workout you would only perform Atlas push-ups for your pushing exercise. Then in the next workout you would perform all standard push-ups. The same would hold true of other exercises for other body parts. The idea was this would protect the body from injury better because you wouldn't be using the same motion every workout. This kind of sounds like what John says about training from mutiple angles, but also limits how often an exercise is performed at each angle.

It sound resonable, but I don't know if it would make that big of difference. Any comments?

The author (Chad Waterbury) also recommended constantly varying reps and weight used and to lift as fast as possible (while maintaining good form).

God bless,

Veg

Greg Newton
12-26-2008, 09:37 PM
Veg,

This sounds good to me. I have trained like that to prevent overuse injuries from doing the exact same thing day in and day out. It helps keep the body and the mind fresh.

mts
12-26-2008, 09:50 PM
For me that increases focus with PC. I got to the point where I didn't like bouncing from one PC to another and another...

Now if I'm doing push-ups, I'll focus on one type for the day, week or even month and then change it up. I'm finding that my volume numbers are climbing compared to when I used a scattergun approach and tried everything under the sun in each workout.