Switchin' & Mixing

This is an example of a training program undertaken by Sylvester Stallone for his power packed, muscle bulging movies.

Monday / Wednesday / Friday:
- Morning: Chest, back, abs
- Afternoon: Shoulders, arms, abs.

Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday:
- Morning: Calves, thighs
- Afternoon: Rear delts, traps, abs.

Of course, I'm not a full-time actor who needs to develop the best possible sculpted body in movie-making history, so I do not need to kill myself over such intensity. But this would be a good training program to follow. Perhaps broken down into something like this -

Day 1: Chest, back, abs.
Day 2: Shoulders, arms, abs.
Day 3: Calves, thighs.
Day 4: Rear delts, traps, abs.

That should give me a day in between each session to rest & recover, allowing my muscles to rebuild & strengthen. And with a short 30 min cardio workout in each session, that should do the trick! Wow!

Here's why it's important to switch & mix exercises for effective training. I mean, come on! Surely you don't wish to waste your time doing repetitive & monotonous exercises that are soon to bore you out? Me too! Switching & mixing also helps to develop the other neglected parts of the same muscle that we are focusing.

Let's take a look at this excerpt:

"Each day we would train, I would change the exercises. I had Sly do extra sets of exercises that were working, and I dropped the ones that weren't working. And the more results he saw, the harder he trained. I'd say, let's do three more sets, and he would immediately agree. The workouts got to be really fun, very exciting."

And now for the ultimate abs workout. Yeehaa!

Franco had Stallone training abs three times every two days, doing 500 reps every ab workout. "We trained four different ab and torso exercises: sit-ups, leg raises, side leg raises, and side bends. We did 50 reps of each, one exercise right after another, and five sets of this cycle. And wait until you see the results. Sly has great abs, intercostals, serratus, everything."

Abdominal strength, good posture & strong bone density... Here I come!