WARNING: What you are about to read puts the myth that you should add some variety to your workout and change it once in a while to rest. If you also believe in the tooth fairy, please leave now! What you are about to read is all 100% true! Enjoy..

If you workout in any way, one of the most common things you may hear is that you need to change your workout around every once in a while. Add some "variety" to your workout... because if you don't change things around, your body will get too used to your workout. I've heard that a good rule of thumb is to change your workout around once a month. I've heard change it every 3 weeks. I've even heard that you should change something in your workout every week! I've basically heard anywhere from every week to every 6 weeks is a good idea. Because after all, if you don't change your workouts and add some variety to them, your body will get too used to your workout and you will stop seeing the gains you want. Now, my question is, is all of this true or false? In my personal opinion, this is the biggest bunch of bullsh*t that I have ever heard in my life... and I'll tell you why.

After reading yet another "the key to a good workout is variety" article, I finally couldn't take it anymore. Let me see if I can give you a good analogy for this. Lets pretend that every time you go to play the lottery, you wear your lucky red shirt for good luck. And every time you wore the red shirt for good luck, you won the lottery! You've won 1 million dollars a week for 2 weeks in a row because you keep wearing the red shirt for good luck! Now, once you win 3 weeks in a row, will you stop wearing the red shirt, and do something else instead for good luck? HELL NO! Why change a good thing? If wearing that red shirt for good luck is working, why the hell would you go and change it? This basically sums up how I feel about "variety."

Did you ever hear the line "If it ain't broken, don't fix it?" Well, why should working out be different? If what you are doing is still working, why in the hell would you go and change it? Because it's been "3 weeks?" Do you think your body knows when it has been 3 weeks? NO! How do you know that this workout wouldn't keep giving you results for 4 weeks? Or 5 weeks? Hell, it might give you results for the next 2 years! This is why as long as you are still getting results from your workout, you should NOT change a damn thing.

But, there are actually people (maybe even you) who have read too many articles saying that you must add variety to your workout, that they actually believe it and change something that is working! On other parts of this website, a line I use all the time is "If what you are doing is not working, change it!!" Which also means "If what you are doing is working, don't change it!!" Sure, if your workout isn't giving you the results you want and you aren't seeing any gains, change it. But if what you are doing is working and giving you some type of good results, don't change it just because "its been 3 weeks and its time to add variety."

Its almost as if the people writing these articles are forgetting part of the title. It shouldn't be called "Add variety to your workout" ..it should be called "Add variety to your workout.. ONLY when what you are currently doing is NOT working!!"

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