10 ways to diversify your workout

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

If you, like me, sometimes get bored of going to workouts, then this article is especially for you. In it, we have chosen 10 ways that will help diversify your workouts and will not let you get bored.

Those who play sports for a long time know that sometimes you come to such a state that training becomes a burden. And there are two solutions to this problem: to overcome yourself and still go to training, or to score, coming up with an excuse.

But there is also a third way. How about making your workout more fun with new techniques, exercises and ideas? I recently had this situation, and I decided to come up with several similar ways. There were as many as ten, and here they are.

TRX

These wonderful things are not yet in all halls. But for the last two weeks, since they appeared in my gym, I simply have not moved away from them. TRX are two special loop bands that can be used to replace multiple machines. Their main feature is that they strongly engage the stabilizing muscles.

Try push-ups or pull-ups on these loops, and you will feel your whole body trembling. This suggests that stabilizing muscles were involved in the work, which are quite difficult to use with the help of other exercises.

Crossfit

CrossFit is becoming more and more popular. The mixture of weightlifting and workout was able to win the hearts of sports fans, and now almost everyone knows about CrossFit.

One of the benefits of CrossFit is that you don't need special machines for many exercises. Only body weight and sometimes a crossbar will suffice. You can read more about it here.

Interval cardio

An excellent choice for those who, like me, are tired of looking at the time counter, at the landscape that does not change outside the window, and watch how the legs move below while running on the track. When you start running at intervals, you simply won't have the time, and most importantly, the strength to concentrate on anything other than running.

And again, Lifehacker has already talked about interval training, and I advise you to learn more about them. This is not only an extra way to diversify your routine, but also an opportunity to spend much more energy than with regular cardio.

Sets

If you are a bodybuilder or fitness professional, using sets in your workouts can make them more fun, more productive, and harder. Drop sets, supersets, negative, partial and forced reps - the choice is very large.

Competitions

If you go to training with a friend or friends, then nothing prevents you from arranging small competitions. Starting with the usual ladder and ending with those who will shake or sit down more. The only thing I ask of you: know when to stop and do not stand on a par with idiots who, in order to brag to their friends, hang more on the bar than necessary. The consequences will not be long in coming.

A ladder is a sports game in which two people pull up or do push-ups on the uneven bars in turn. Starting from the first repetition, in each next approach, one more is added. And so on until one of the players surrenders.

Go outside

If you are used to working out in the gym, then street workouts will be a real discovery for you. In addition to the fact that running on the street is simply more interesting, because you can look at the world around you, it is much more pleasant to do it outdoors.

In addition, in any city there are many sports grounds with horizontal bars and parallel bars, and these two shells are enough to train the whole body.

Weightlifting

In the wake of CrossFit, some also remembered weightlifting. And for a good reason, because weightlifting is the ancestor of fitness, bodybuilding and crossfit. Despite the fact that there are only two exercises in weightlifting: the snatch and the clean and jerk, it is still incredibly interesting to do it. I advise you to try, but only under the supervision of a knowledgeable person. You don't need injuries, do you?

Statics

One of the most famous static exercises is the plank. But there are many other isometric exercises as well. What's more, just about any exercise you do can be turned into a static one.

Are you pulling up on a horizontal bar? Hold in the middle position for a few seconds. Do you push up? Same advice. By adding static exercises, you can develop muscle strength and tendon strength.

Wear

One of the most effective ways not to get bored during your workout. Try to finish the workout at least once, not when you wanted, but when you no longer want to live on this planet, and your body seems to have turned into a cluster of nerve endings.

Do this. And you will want to repeat it.

Explosion training

Fitness and bodybuilding are quite monotonous sports. But nothing stops you from changing it. Increase the speed of the exercise several times and do it at maximum speed. Prove to others that pitching and fitness are not sluggish turtles!