Cathe, can there be TOO MUCH VARIETY????

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melijoh

Cathlete
Cathe,
I have been doing your work outs for about year now. I love your workouts so much that use a different dvd almost every day, week after week so that I DON'T GET BORED and start remembering the whole routine. I wanted to shock my system by varying the workouts and keeping it fun and fresh of course. My concern is that I never stick with one routine for more than a few weeks. Can there be TOO MUCH VARIETY??? I mean, I've lost the baby weight and increase my weights if it gets too easy...but can this method of working out stop muscle gains or strength increases? Am I better off working out with ONE workout series (for instance, Slow and Heavy) for about a month then switching to the Body Blast Series for a different month? Any sugggestions would be truly appreciated because I feel that I need to get a better plan in action!
 
Wow, I was actually planning on posting the exact same question! I am looking forward to hearing the answer. I don't even stick with a routine for a few weeks...I get bored easily and like variety, but I am afraid that by not sticking with the same routine for a few weeks that my body won't make the changes I want it to make.
 
Bumping this one!

Could have posted this question myself. The only thing that is consistent is that I workout and each week consists of lifting and cardio.
 
I'm not Cathe obviously, but IMHO if you are getting the results you want with your current system - in your case, continuous variety - then KEEP DOING IT. Especially given that you go ahead and up your weight loads when your current ones get too easy; that means you're building strength so what you're doing must be working. A few weeks for a routine is fine. Only when you stop getting results, or your progress slows, do you need to re-evaluate your long-term exercise program.

IMHO again, it really sounds like you're actually very in tune with what your body and brain want/need for exercise. Keep up the good work!

A-Jock
 
I have been doing the same thing for the same reasons. And have been wondering the same thing!!!
Nathalie
 
I have exercise ADD as I get older, and am doing p90x+ and plan to incorporate the 4D soon as it arrives....tough workouts...makes for lots of combo's and variety - BUT think of it, we only have 1 body with the same old muscles...so if you're still working real hard, working the same muscles and heart, but to different tunes and combos, what's the big deal? I think it would dumb down results if you went from tough workouts to say, using 1 lb weights and cruising on an exercise bike easy enough to read a magazine....
 
This was a great discussion. I have 60+ Cathe workouts. :) And I just rotate them depending on whether I did legs one day or want to do cardio another. Some weeks I do a series like CTX or 4DS and stick with it for a week or two, but I just love the variety. It's never boring! :)
 
Thanks for everyone's feedback! I guess I should re-evaluate what my goals are and tweek the workouts based on that.
 
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