During my 500-hour personal trainer certification
program, I learned a lot of things about exercise from the instructor, Barry Fritz. One of the most important was the necessity of having a rationale
for whatever it is you’re doing at the gym.
I like to make the analogy to eating
a Reese’s. (Actually, I’ve never made this analogy before, but hear me out.) We
know there’s no wrong way to eat a Reese’s. Likewise, there’s no wrong way to
design a workout — as long as you have a rationale.
I guess it’s not a great analogy, since it doesn’t
matter the slightest bit why you chopped your Reese’s into a hundred tiny
pieces, organized them from smallest to largest, and ate every third morsel. Oh well. Back to exercise.
What I mean is that you could put together what
might seem to be a completely bone-headed training program. You appear to make
every “mistake” in the book. Yet if you can justify all of your choices with sound logic, then your program may not be so bone-headed after all.
