To get the most out of your weight loss program, variety is important but consistency is also key to your success.

In a previous article I have discussed the importance of changing your workouts regularly in order to keep getting good results, when either losing weight, building muscle or toning up.

Even though changing the variables of your exercise program is important to its success, your workouts shouldn’t necessarily be completely different each time. Working out randomly each workout doesn’t give you a chance to repeat and better on your specific type of workout, this then doesn’t allow for your body to adapt and

better on its current condition. An ideal way to plan your workouts to get great results is to mostly be consistent and to them try to gradually better on components of your program for a specific

time.

Once you have trained for this period, you should then vary your exercise variables, as I have described in the "exercise variety" article, you can then stay consistent with this new program for somewhere between 4 and 8 weeks, again attempting to better where you can. To go over how to vary your program, you can vary the number of sets and reps of the exercises, the sequence of your exercises, the way you group exercises, the type of exercise, the number of exercises each workout, the resistance you use, the time your muscles are under tension,
the amount of stability you use, the volume of training work, recovery periods you use, movement speed, range of motion, the angle of the exercises, and changing the frequency of your workouts are some examples of ways you can vary your program every 4-8 weeks.

Lets put this into practice, if you are working out using 10 sets of 3 reps over 6 different exercises grouped in pairs taking 30 seconds recovery between each pair and no rest within the pair. If you are doing this right, you are tracking your progress but writing down your weights, sets and reps as you progress. After about 6 weeks, you may find that you are not improving anymore with that program so you should then start a new program.

For your next program you choose a 5 set of 5 reps routine, this time you group your exercises using three exercises back to back (tri set or giant set). With each set you perform it with no rest between the three exercises and rest for two minutes after the tri set to fully recover and so you can complete the next set with almost full strength levels.

Here you have a couple of ideas of how you can maintain both consistency and variety in your exercise program to optimise your results. If you want to take all the guess work out of your
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