Yeah you 'eard.
It's awful.
Terrible.
It stinks
That's what my clients say when I make them do it.
Ok I lie.
The title is dramatic on purpose, but here's the meat of it. Most programs, good programs, are really fucking boring.
You should do some squat stuff, butt stuff, lots of back stuff, chesty bits, and core. Those movement patterns are all very samey too, there's a reason elite athletes and lifters are still barbell squatting and dumbbell rowing. They're effective exercises and they work. It's the same reason we roll our eyes at the 'gram gurus.
Weight and novelty are the first things people think of when trying to progress an exercise. Let's make it heavy, now let's make it weird, now let's make it weird AND heavy. How do we think this ends?
Hospital. Yes. 10 points to Gryffinpuff.
Making you do weird shit is not where my value lies. Most new people that start with me learn these basics FIRST:
- How to squat
- How to isolate your shoulder blades
- How to use your TA/core
- How to squeeze your butt cheeks the RIGHT way.
So my programs are not Instagram worthy in the same way no one is on the 'gram boasting about how they read that amazing work of literature, Holes. It's painful and we all had to do it, and fuck Stanley. However, a book has never made both my brain and mouth so dry, as if I were in that fucking dessert with them.
My value lies in correcting your movement, doing it quickly, communicating it clearly, and making you feel confident about it.
To conclude, if you ask me for a program, you'll probably get something alone the lines of "Seated row, squats, lunges, lat pulldown." It's not sexy, but it is effective. It's even more effective if I stand over you and do that weird pacing we (PTs) do, around the machine like a hyena and finish by whispering in your ear, "really good movement but I want you to pinch your shoulders together like you're giving yourself back cleavage. Yeah do you feel that?"
By my count, I have spent at least 300 hours saying this at this point in my career.
Anyway, weird stuff is fun if you're bored, but it's probably not better for you than normal stuff. If the weird stuff gets you excited to workout though... go hard, but not too hard.
See you in hospital
Tiff
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