Your Waist Exercise Routine Is Going To Fail, Part I
I have some bad news. Your waist exercises are eventually going to fail you. Most workout plans do, and for a number of different reasons: boredom, frustration, inadequate results, plateaus, or just simple ineffectiveness.
There’s excellent news, however: there are 4 ways to bulletproof your waist exercises so that they don’t fail. Instead, your routine can continue to sculpt your body, enhance your lifestyle, and improve your health. We’re going to discuss the first two tactics here, and the last two in Why Your Waist Exercise Routine Will Fail, Part II.
Let’s go…
The Failure of Traditional Programming
Traditional waist exercise routines usually fall short because they’re discontinued. This usually occurs for two reasons: boredom and perceived ineffectiveness.
The majority of exercise programs are incredibly boring. “Do 100 crunches every day for a year.” Yeah, right. Just thinking about it is sufficient to put me to sleep.
Even for hard-core exercise enthusiasts that happen to be game enough to hang in there with a obnoxiously boring exercise routine for awhile, most sooner or later quit simply because the routine loses its perceived effectiveness. In plain english, the exercise routines no longer apparently work.
The body adapts to the challenges it goes through – e.g. “100 crunches a day” – so that it is equipped to handle those stresses. The result is that the body will develop just enough to handle 100 crunches but no further.
This is called a “plateau” and can be incredibly frustrating. How does a person climb past plateaus? I’m glad you asked.
Mix it Up
The first key to ensuring the success of your waist exercise routine is to make use of variety. Mix and match a range of exercises in different combinations so that you rarely do the same routine twice. I suggest programming the same routine once every 1-4 months if only in the interests of tracking improvement, which I’ll explore in further detail below.
For example, let’s say you’re doing waist exercises 4 days a week, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. One week’s schedule might look something like this:
Monday – 4 rounds for time of: 5 push ups, 10 bicycle crunches, 15 air squats
Tuesday – as many rounds as possible (“AMRAP”) in 10 minutes, where each round is: 4 rocket jumps, 7 overhead squats, 12 butterfly situps
Thursday – for time: 10 lying leg extensions, 15 air squats, 20 butterfly situps, 25 mountain climbers, 35 crunches
Friday – 7-to-1 lying leg raises and burpees (e.g. 7 lying leg raises, 7 burpees; 6 LLR, 6 burpees; 5 LLR, 5 burpees; etc to 1 LLR, 1 burpee)
The next week will feature four completely different workouts which may or may not feature some of the above exercises.
Just by mixing it up and keeping your waist exercise routine varied, you not only will see continued results but you’ll remain engaged and interested, which is key to keeping you committed to your program.
Short and Intense
I know very few people that look forward to a daily hourlong workout. Not only is it harder to plan long workouts, but it makes it that much more likely you’ll quit. Even more importantly, it’s not the amount of time you work out that matters, it’s the workout’s intensity.
To put it a different way, it’s harder to keep up the intensity required for 60 minutes than it is for 5-10.
The ideal way to carve your waistline into an attention-worthy midriff is to keep your waist exercise routine brief and intense. Give 100% of your sweat and effort for 5-10 minutes and you’ll start seeing results very rapidly.
If you’re just getting started with your waist exercises, then you should make an effort to be sweating pretty heavily by the end of your workout. After several weeks you should be targeting intense discomfort: muscle fatigue, heavy breathing, and sweating like crazy. The more intense the training, the more effective your results will be.
The caveat here is that you should of course apply strict form and never work through “bad” pain, like swelling, chest pain, joint pain, etc.
In Part II we’ll deal with the last two tips you can employ to make your waist exercises successful and enjoyable.
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