Apr 10 in Fitness & Health 🏋🥩
Training For Purpose
How you structure and Crete your training plan, should always be routed in your purpose: what are you training for?
If you're a long distance runner, why the fuck would you need to do 1 rep max deadlifts? Would you need to be doing plyometrics if you're a body builder? The point is, your training should be crafted around your goals - simple! 🤝
Let's take a look at some examples! 👀
Powerlifting: The aim for a powerlifter is to move as much weight as possible, under competition conditions, for squat, bench and deadlift. This means you're going to be prioritising your compound movements, getting your body progressively overloading the weight in which you move, focusing in the lower rep ranges. Your primary compound movements (squat, bench and deadlifts) should be accompanied by secondary compounds such as cable pull downs, barbell rows and shoulder press as they benefit supportive/stabilising muscles in your main movement. Lastly, you want to include a selection of accessories that directly target weaker muscles in your squat, bench and deadlift. For example, triceps, hamstrings, adductors and hip flexors.
Body Building: The aim for a body builder is to put on as much symmetrical, well-shaped muscle mass to suit the category they're competing on; it's all about aesthetics. You'd want to be including a lot of free weight AND machine compounds, staying in the slightly higher rep ranges, specifically focusing in intensity and time under tension. body builders will use plenty of accessory exercises to make smaller muscles pop and achieve a fuller, more detailed physique.
Athletic Training: The aim really depends on what sports you do. Athletic training will focus in sport specific movements and whatever crosses over to your sport/position the best. For example, a prop in rugby will do a lot more heat compound lifts than the winger in the team, as they must be adapted to exerting as much force as possible in scrums and heavy hits. A track athlete, will do lots of plyometrics, olympic lift variations (such as power cleans) and unilateral movements to replicate the split stance of running. There's a lot of variation!
Hybrid Training: The aim a hybrid athlete is to be well rounded aesthetically, strength of lifts and cardiovascular abilities. This training style will include a large spread of exercise to target each angle they're aiming for. You'll need to structure your weeks carefully, allocating different days to different disciplines: but remember, you'll be a jack of all trades, not a master of one.
So there you go, creating a training program should all be focussed on PURPOSE. Don't include unnecessary exercises that don't assist your goals, focus on what's going to get you closer to what you're trying to achieve!
How do you train? Did you find it easy to create your training program?
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Training For Purpose
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