Personal Training: The Body Remembers

(Before starting any fitness routine, contact your doctor for a complete physical and advice to ensure that you are healthy and have no underlying problems that could worsen during an exercise regimen.)

The Ability of Your Body to Remember

Your body has a unique ability to remember and adapt. One of the primary things you must remember when training for fitness or a specific goal, to make gains and improve your performance, you must utilize a training program that will ensure your body does not adapt to one weight or way of training. 

This process has many names depending on who is describing it. The most common name used is periodization. This is when you develop your program that allows changes in the program at planned intervals to reach your goal. When developing any program you must keep your goal in mind and your periodization program should allow you to reach that goal.
Your body has the ability to adapt to situations. This ability is due to our evolution through our development. This includes storing of body fat, dealing with stress, and putting limits on how much work it will support. Each person is different in their body’s ability and learning what those limits are depends on each individual. Not everyone can lift 300 pounds or run a marathon. We as individuals are different creating a unique situation. Not all programs will be the same and each may require adapting what works.

Survival and Defensive Mechanism

Our defensive and survival mechanism in our being will cause our body’s to store fat if it feels that we are starving it. Which is one of the reasons that fad diets and in many cases dieting in general do not work on a long term basis. Especially those that have us eating so little that we are always hungry. Or when we continually put the same amount of stress in our programs that allows our body to learn to only put out the amount of energy required for that effort. This adaptation also can even fall into how your body processes food and nutrients.