Research shows that 90 to 95% of people who exercise in a conventional gym do not achieve any results. How is this possible? For a sports professional this is simple. Most people exercise instead of training. This problem often has to do with the guidance people receive in a gym, or rather. The guidance they don't receive. When you join a gym, you often receive an intake with a schedule that you have to follow for the next 6 to 8 weeks. After this period, there is often no follow-up to this schedule, so people continue to do the same thing for months. Then you are moving. You stay active and basically healthy. This is of course very good, because something is better than nothing. However, most people often experience this as very boring and that is why people do not stick with it for long.
The definition of training is as follows:
Training is the systematic administration of a physical stimulus that causes the body to adapt and become better than it was. This means that if you want to get better at a certain exercise or become stronger, more flexible, faster or whatever, you have to stimulate the body to get better every training session. So if you do the same thing every time, you won't get much better. But how do you approach this?
1. Set a goal for yourself.
2. Then you look at what it takes to achieve this goal. Do you still have to learn the technique, are you flexible enough for certain exercises, do you have injuries or other limitations? Have you mapped this out well? Then it's a matter. To divide the time in which you want to achieve the goal into parts.
3. Before you start making the training sessions, you will first have to create a starting situation. Do you master the technology? Do you have the mobility for the exercise? These are all things you want to test before you can actually improve the exercises or become stronger in your exercises.
So you can see that if you really want to train, there is a step-by-step plan attached to it. This is something that a coach naturally thinks carefully about when drawing up your training schedule. So you see that physical goals are very important in drawing up the training schedule, but that other things are also involved!
I would like to conclude with a story/myth;
The Greeks were already involved in sports and becoming strong a few thousand years ago. At that time there was a wrestler who had already been an Olympic champion several times. This good man wanted to become stronger and decided to lift a calf every day until it became an adult! In this way it was discovered that if you systematically lift heavier and heavier weights, you will become stronger over time.
Luuk van Lievenoogen
Enforce Master Trainer
luuk@enforce.nl
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