To say that the human body is an amazing machine is an understatement, especially when it comes to diet and exercise. Our bodies are constantly trying to achieve a state of homeostasis. The human body over time will make adjustments to try and adapt to its current environment.
The biggest problem with sticking with the same diet and exercise plan day in and day out is that your body will eventually adapt to that plan. The goal is to make subtle changes that keep your body guessing.
Use shock principles with your workouts
There are minor changes that you can do to your workout that will drastically improve your performance. One trick that I like to use is to take comparable exercises and swap them out from week to week. For example, let’s take a basic quadriceps workout. I’ll group my exercises into different categories
Category A: Free weight squats, Smith machine squats
Category B: Leg press, Hack squats
Category C: Leg extensions, lunges
During week one I will use one exercise from each category. The following week I will pick a different group of exercises from my list and so on and so on. For example:
Week One: Free weight squats, Hack squats, Leg extensions
Week Two: Smith machine squats, Leg press, lunges
Week Three: Smith machine squats, Leg press, leg extensions
*Note: These are drastic changes and the changes don’t have to be done every week but they do keep your workouts from becoming stale.
Another option I use in my workouts is to cycle the weight and intensity. I like to train hard and heavy for three to four weeks then do one to two weeks of lighter weight with higher repetitions. Another benefit to cycling your training intensity is that you can decrease the risk of injuries.
Tying it all together
If you notice that your workout program is no longer working for you then try mixing things up. Add a little spice to your workouts and change the tempo. You may be surprised that a few subtle changes can drastically change your workout results.
Gerald Gore is the owner of the online fitness review site One4Fitness. For more health and fitness related tips and reviews on workout equipment visit Gerald’s site at http://www.one4fitness.com
When studying distribution systems from an abstract standpoint and truly understands the maximum efficiency you need to take a look at what nature teaches us with her hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Consider the distribution of trade amongst nations or the flow of money and how this resembles blood flow system in complex organisms and species. Think of the computer use of bandwidth and the flows of information. Look at the railroads, water pipelines and trucking industry for instance. In any trade route system or TRS you need to be sure that you get there in a expeditious manner.
Consider if you will an Internet Virus and how that works its way into a distribution system. Basically like getting on the on-ramp of a major highway. The virus uses the most efficient route, which is already set up. And thus utilizes all at its disposal, like a real virus in the blood stream;
http://www.silkroad.com/papers/html/bomb/node8.html
The Human brain also moves information via chemically fired electro pulses in the brain. We see how the brain uses information and processes it for the visual part of the brain. So if you look at the Internet, a computer system, a biological system of the blood flow system or the brain, it all starts to look a whole lot like the interweaving transportation, communication and distribution systems of a modern civilization.
How about in ancient times or periods before modern civilizations and how the stations were set up along the trade routes in those ancient times, like Pony Express Route Stations and exactly like our current trucking terminal concept of 7-8 hours between depots and tractor switch off relays, as this is the amount of travel plus or minus re-fueling that a driver can safely travel. Is this all that much different from the future systems being designed today with packets and relays of smart dust and nodes or motes? Is that so much different than the ideas of the homing pigeons and organic delivery systems using water ways or smoke signals to alert the next inline user?
How about the ancient Silk Roads used for trade between mountainous terrains of Europe, Middle East and China, like the crevasses of the brain, how many possible routes and different methods can secure and improve success of delivery? Whether we are discussing the electronic flow of money or they water pipelines under our feet, it makes sense to do what works. In case something goes wrong we have another method or way around the problem; consider the stroke victims reprogramming around the damaged part of the brain. How about the dilemma of first responders or getting goods to market without even in the event of a catastrophe, around blockages, roads which are out and downed power lines and trees like after Hurricane Katrina?
Preventing chaos and potato lines during times of crisis is not hard if you understand how things flow and what works best and then draw up a plan prior to such a negative potential eventuality. An over all plan without missing anything. A chess strategy, pre-figured with room to improvise and adapt? Like Playing Risk, but in advance of the game.
http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/remus.html
http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000013.htm
You see Arthur C Clark’s novels always talked of triple redundancies and you can bet that Gates and Allen also had this thought and let’s also look at the many ways to open programs on windows. How handicap people can use a computer or how even a computer can be used by a chimpanzee to move something on the screen without anything but a thought?
When designing distribution systems with fail-safes, I urge all humans to expand you mind and look around you to see what works and why. Study and observe gridlock traffic, blocked gutters and clogged sinks. Think of how nature uses its tributaries to bring the water from storms back to the sea and when you are done with this, you will be thinking like me.
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