Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

It makes logical sense that if you want to be the best you can be at a sport, you should

train like the best.

And there is big business to support that notion as well. Everything from professional

training plans to your favorite sports stars nutrition supplements to their morning routines

is sold, traded, shared and reshared on social media. But what if I told you that you're actually

shooting yourself in the foot by training like

Rappano, Felix, Curry, or Bolt? Now, let's start with a recent study that plotted the

progression of thousands of people following an ultra-minimalist training plan. As sports

science writer, Alex Hutchinson put it in his outside magazine article,

and I quote,

There's good news and bad news in a remarkable new, multi-year study of nearly 15,000 people

who followed an ultra-minimalist strength training plan involving just one short workout a week. The good news is that

the training really works, despite taking less than 20 minutes a week all in street clothes. The bad news is

that it eventually stops working or at least gets less effective. Now, the last part of that quote may have you scratching your head, but the study researchers

argue that this leveling off phenomenon may actually be much more universal rather than

specific to this particular training plan.

And that point is precisely why this study has some important implications

for how we mere mortals should be training and setting goals. But first, let's look at that study.

The Dutch training plan that the researchers looked at is called Fit20.

It involves one solitary workout per week.

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