Law of Accommodation

[Squat1]

Louie Simmons suggests rotating exercises every three weeks to prevent going stale.
Is he correct?
The programs provided here don't rotate exercises at all.

[Tom Campitelli]

Louie Simmons suggests rotating exercises every three weeks to prevent going stale.
Is he correct?
The programs provided here don't rotate exercises at all.

Starting Strength advocates a different approach. Novices don't need to worry about varying their exercises. Most people are novices, even if they don't think they are. As the level of training advancement increases, you will find increasing complexity may be required. However, the basis of any strength building program remains regular exposure to the big lifts. Even some of the competitors at the at the elite levels of the sport still stick to the basics. Here is something from Andrey Malanichev that is every interesting and provides an interesting counterpoint to what Louie says:

http://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/c..._world/cfgm0ug

So, the short answer is, you do not need to constantly rotate exercises to make progress. Variation and complexity have their place, but your training should be as absolutely simple as you can possibly make it. The fewer the variables, the easier things are to keep track of. Getting stronger becomes more and more difficult the further you progress. Be prepared to suffer.

[kins]

Many people are under the impression that progress in the weight room means learning more ways to curl, the basic one or two not being sufficient. But progress means more strength, not more exercises; the variable we manipulate is load, not exercise selection. You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at on time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaption will be.

This explains it well.

[wk105]

'Some things always work', as Jordan said in one of his videos on his blog.