Welcome to the GitFit Guy's quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Fit Guy. And in this episode, you're going to discover why the best workout for you is the workout you're not doing.

All right, let's jump into today's show. If you check out the title of

a very recent study that looked into the best way to exercise, then you may get a very good

clue as to what the conclusion of that study was. Here's what the study was titled, short-term

effects of different loading schemes in fitness-related resistance training. You're about to learn exactly what this

study found, why the best workout is the one you're not doing and what you can do about it.

So the purpose of this study was to investigate the strength building effects of four,

count them four, different loading schemes, aka workouts. 50 fit and trained participants were randomly divided into four different

sample groups in which they trained as followed. You had one group that did CL. That's constant

load and constant volume of repetitions over six weeks of training. That means they really didn't

change anything as far as volume and intensity goes over those six weeks. Then we had

a group called IL. IL had increases in load and decreases in volume of repetitions made every two

weeks during those six weeks. So this means weight went up, but reps went down every two weeks.

Then they had a DL group. The DL group had a decrease in load,

but an increased volume of repetitions. So that means the weight went down, but the reps went up

every two weeks. And then finally, there was the DCL group, daily changing load and volume of

repetitions. So that meant every single day they were thrown a curveball with both the weight

and the reps changed around, sometimes up, sometimes down.

Now, rest periods were held constant between all groups, as were the exercises, and the exercises were pretty straightforward.

Things like horizontal leg press, chest press, butterflies, lat pull downs, horizontal rows, shoulder presses, cable pushdowns, and dumbbell bicep curls.

They performed these over the full range of motion in each workout.

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