BORING IS GOOD
...AND HERE'S WHY
How could anything boring be good?
Let's think of some examples...
There's a simple reason why we do these things: for the benefit they provide.
However, there is actually a scientific reason for boring nature of our exercise.
In the general health and fitness community, it is often touted that variation is important in order to develop all of the muscles and provide mental stimulation during exercise.
But this is simply not the case when we consider what it is we are trying to achieve through exercise: enhanced bodily physique and function and improved health without getting injured in order to achieve this.
Exercise is not meant to be entertaining, rather it is a means to an end. In the SuperSlow™ and Power of 10 methods of strength training, every muscle of the body is engaged during the workout, resulting in full body fatigue. This means that we can do the same exercises for the rest of our lives, within the same time frame (30 minute workout) and progress in strength. The need for variation is eliminated because we are already targeting every muscle in the body.
Additionally, varying exercise can cause confusion when learning new machines or, in the case of other modalities, new moves. It takes a retraining of the body and the neurology involved to learn this.
Furthermore, instructors may make the mistake of pacing the learning material faster than the subject's slowest acquisition rate which leads the subject vulnerable to injury during this time.
In SuperSlow™ and Power of 10 workouts, a comment of boredom tells us that the subject has failed to learn science behind the method and/or has not developed the focus and concentration required during the exercises to achieve fatigue. Our stance is that our clients use our workouts as a serious place of exercise and engage in low intensity recreational activity between workouts for fun.
If you find out method boring, it means your body is progressing. Boring is good in this sense.
However, true believers of our method know that to get to the level of intensity required in our training, workouts are anything but boring.
As quoted in the book "The Renaissance of Exercise": "SuperSlow™ is anything but boring. If I have the ability to think at all, SuperSlow is the most exciting, intellectually demanding, painful, emotionally and physically consuming things I can ever do. Anyone who finds it boring isn't paying attention to what he's doing." - Bob Hicks
Let's think of some examples...
- Brushing your teeth
- Memorizing times tables
- Getting your hair cut
- Sitting through a lecture
- Practicing something over and over again
- and more
There's a simple reason why we do these things: for the benefit they provide.
However, there is actually a scientific reason for boring nature of our exercise.
In the general health and fitness community, it is often touted that variation is important in order to develop all of the muscles and provide mental stimulation during exercise.
But this is simply not the case when we consider what it is we are trying to achieve through exercise: enhanced bodily physique and function and improved health without getting injured in order to achieve this.
Exercise is not meant to be entertaining, rather it is a means to an end. In the SuperSlow™ and Power of 10 methods of strength training, every muscle of the body is engaged during the workout, resulting in full body fatigue. This means that we can do the same exercises for the rest of our lives, within the same time frame (30 minute workout) and progress in strength. The need for variation is eliminated because we are already targeting every muscle in the body.
Additionally, varying exercise can cause confusion when learning new machines or, in the case of other modalities, new moves. It takes a retraining of the body and the neurology involved to learn this.
Furthermore, instructors may make the mistake of pacing the learning material faster than the subject's slowest acquisition rate which leads the subject vulnerable to injury during this time.
In SuperSlow™ and Power of 10 workouts, a comment of boredom tells us that the subject has failed to learn science behind the method and/or has not developed the focus and concentration required during the exercises to achieve fatigue. Our stance is that our clients use our workouts as a serious place of exercise and engage in low intensity recreational activity between workouts for fun.
If you find out method boring, it means your body is progressing. Boring is good in this sense.
However, true believers of our method know that to get to the level of intensity required in our training, workouts are anything but boring.
As quoted in the book "The Renaissance of Exercise": "SuperSlow™ is anything but boring. If I have the ability to think at all, SuperSlow is the most exciting, intellectually demanding, painful, emotionally and physically consuming things I can ever do. Anyone who finds it boring isn't paying attention to what he's doing." - Bob Hicks
It only takes one hour a week for a lifetime of strength