Keen and hard with periodization

Those who divide their training into phases that regularly expose the body to new stimuli will steadily advance their development. Those who do not do so and always train in the same way will stop making progress after just a few weeks.

In this article, you will learn what periodisation means and why it is so important for your daily short training sessions.

What does stagnation in training mean?

Almost everyone who has ever trained or pursued a training goal is familiar with the problem: when you start training, you feel significant progress in the form of muscle growth, increased strength or reduced body fat – until, after a certain amount of time, you reach a point where you are no longer making progress. You train just as intensively as before, but the training effect becomes smaller and ultimately disappears altogether – you stagnate.

Why is there stagnation?

Sports science tells us that muscles adapt to a specific training programme after just a few weeks and subsequently no longer develop as desired. This is evident, for example, in the fact that you no longer experience muscle soreness after a certain period of time: the muscles have adapted to the strain and consequently no longer respond to the training stimulus.

How can you maintain your training progress?

Through periodisation, i.e. regularly changing your training stimuli. This maintains your training progress and prevents so-called training plateaus (stagnation). This means that your muscles cannot adapt to one type of exercise and must therefore constantly adjust.

In addition, periodisation makes your strength training more varied and increases your motivation because you are constantly faced with new challenges.

Similarities to initial training progress

A beginner makes great progress in training at the beginning because the muscles are not used to the strain. The muscles react strongly and you are highly motivated because of the noticeable training successes.

With good periodisation, we essentially become beginners again and again. This allows us to maintain progress and motivation with short training sessions.

Declining motivation without periodisation

When you exercise and no longer feel any progress, your motivation for training automatically drops. This process can be observed at the beginning of the year, for example. In January, gyms are full of new faces. By the end of February, most of them have already left.

Periodisation with MIKE5

At MIKE5, we focus on changing the interval. This is a simple and practical system that can be used even without prior knowledge. It allows us to constantly move within a new intensity range for the muscles. This systematic change in training requirements leads to long-term and sustainable performance improvement in all areas (maximum strength, strength endurance, muscle building, reduction of body fat, etc.).

Conclusion

The periodisation of training is much more important than the training volume.

With good periodisation, you can repeatedly stimulate your muscles effectively. This can be achieved with the appropriate intensity, even during very short training sessions. By constantly stimulating your muscles in new ways, you can maintain your training progress.

With MIKE5, periodisation is ensured by regularly changing the five-minute interval. The system is simple, efficient and can be used by both beginners and advanced users.