Doing the same fitness training over and over can get mighty tedious. Your body becomes accustomed to certain training over time, but it will also change as you continue to age. These aspects make it important to keep switching your training routines. Having a wide variety of exercise combinations in your training routine is important for many reasons, some of which have to do with strength and endurance, while others are related to basic physical health elements. Diversifying your training will increase your overall fitness level and will motivate you to run as well. In today’s video, I will be talking about the importance of training diversification for your body. Let’s begin!
Why Should You Diversify Your Training?
Changing up your training routine helps you to target different areas of your body. While there are some very popular options for fitness routines for overall health, you can mix things up and give your body a true workout. Your body is super smart. When you first try something, like a squat series, your body is learning something new. This creates new mind body connections and requires the muscles to break down and rebuild. This is how your body becomes stronger and more resilient. However, your body is smart so that once it learns something new, it no longer needs to work as hard. Alternative workouts such as biking or swimming can help you maintain your aerobic conditioning while providing new stimulation and excitement. Adding speed training, strength training, or some other new element into your training will break the boredom while providing a new challenge and enhanced fitness benefits.
Benefits Of Training Diversification
Let’s discuss some of the key benefits of training diversification on your body.
Increased Motivation and Decreased Burn-Out
Encouraging yourself to engage in more than one training helps you to focus on new tasks and demands, challenging your mind and body with new circumstances. This diversification will activate different patterns in your body and brain, which help to hold your interest. If you lose interest in a workout or activity, it is unlikely that any amount of teaching or coaching will help you improve. Losing interest in one training could also cause you to lose interest in working out altogether, and in doing so, lose out on the far-reaching benefits of exercise later in life. Diversifying your workouts makes each time you step into the gym an adventure. Experienced personal trainers will always look for ways to challenge you, both mentally and physically. If you’re constantly changing your workouts, you won’t get bored, and you will be more likely to continue to exercise.
Increased Coordination And Skills
Changing your training routine makes your body work harder. It increases your coordination and helps you develop more skills. New skill development allows you to be more effective in any exercise you take part in. This crossover has been shown in both the development of motor skill coordination and the mental aspect of reading the game. It allows you to approach your training with new perspectives and strategies. Acquiring new skills serves to build your self-esteem and confidence.
Decreased Risk Of Injury
Adolescent bodies are not designed to be treated like adult bodies, they are in a state of constant growth and change. The repetition of training specifically, especially from a young age, has led to an increase in overuse injuries in young adults. This has both short-term effects and long-term effects. Constant injury stresses are one of the main contributors to feel burned out. By encouraging training diversification from a young age, you can spread your stress over many patterns and systems. This allows your body time to recover, grow stronger and become more injury resilient.
Build Muscles More Effectively
When your exercises vary, your muscles have to strain to accommodate the changes. If you keep doing the same training, your strength, endurance, and muscle growth will plateau. You will need to gradually advance to more training routines if you want to progress. Having a diversified training routine help you lose more fat mass and gain more lean body mass while increasing your body strength. Even if the change is small like going from a walking lunge to a rear foot elevated split squat, your body will utilize the same muscles in different ways. This differentiation ensures that you’ll continue improving and strengthening the training pattern, instead of just repeating the same thing getting more efficient, but not stronger. When you’ll diversify your training, you’ll hit muscles you may otherwise ignore. You’ll be sore in places you didn’t know you could be sore. You’ll target areas that haven’t been utilized before or utilized correctly. You’ll fix muscle imbalances. In essence, you’ll get better full-body results by diversifying your training routine.
How To Diversify Your Training?
First of all, don’t think of it as a big thing. One of the best ways to diversify your training is to focus on a different area of the three main types of exercise: mobility, strength, and cardio. Each of these training has some unique benefits to your health and keeps things exciting and effective without making you feel stuck in your routine. The idea is to strengthen your whole body and improve your mobility with a variety of workouts so you can perform better at your preferred activity. I’ll be sharing with you a few simple strategies that can help you diversify your training.
Sneak In New Activities
You can maintain your regular training while also peppering in new activities. Like to run? Pause and do side lunges during your route. This way you’re not only working in a forward motion. You can even consider doing a set of push-ups at each signal or stop sign. This way, you’re folding a strength training routine into your regular cardio workout.
Target Different Muscles During Each Workout
As you get more experienced with different pieces of training, you can plan your week so that you’re targeting different muscles on different days. Maybe you do a strength-training workout followed by a quick 10-min run on Mondays and Wednesdays, yoga or stretching on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and long runs over the weekend. The idea is to build a training schedule that makes sense according to your needs and preferences.
Don’t Be Afraid To Try Something New
Intimidated by yoga? Think of trying Zumba? Scared of rock climbing? Has it been years since you’ve picked up a tennis racket? The truth is, it can hurt to try new activities, but you always learn new things. You may even discover you like these pursuits more than your regular training and benefit more from them.
The Recommended Trio
The best-diversified training is a mix of strength, mobility, and aerobic exercises. Each one of them has its own benefits and when combined can help you increase your body’s overall strength and capacity.
Strength Exercise
Strength exercises not only target your muscles but also your bones. Whether you decide to lift free weights, work on your push-ups, or use resistance bands, strength exercises increase your muscle mass and help you become stronger and fitter.
Mobility Training
Mobility training promotes good posture, relieves tension associated with sedentary lifestyles or over-exercising, improves all-around functional fitness performance, and increases range of movement, helping you to stay active and healthy. It reduces joint deterioration, prevents aches and pains, and helps build stronger, more adaptive muscles and joints. So, try to add some kind of flexibility or balance training in your routine to avail benefits.
Aerobic Exercise
Aerobic exercise is a very diverse mix. It can be swimming, running, dancing, biking, or really anything that gets your heart pumping. Aerobic exercise is fantastic for your cardiovascular system. With regular aerobic exercise, you can help keep your lungs healthy, improve your endurance, and even prevent problems like high blood pressure and diabetes.
Conclusion
Now that you know why and how to diversify your training routine, stay committed to doing so. There are so many different types of exercise that you can add to your diversified training routine. Diversifying your routine allows you to find new activities you love and makes it easier for you to achieve your goals.