Is the "muscle confusion" concept described in P90x literature for real, or a load of marketing crap?
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From personal experience, if I don't change my workouts, it seems that body adapts and it's harder to build muscle and/or lose weight. The reality is that I'm probably not giving my muscles enough time to rest and regenerate themselves.
Changing up the exercises like P90x program, focuses your attention on different muscle groups, which gives rest to the ones you just worked for the past couple of weeks and lets them repair themselves. This isn't necessarily muscle confusion but working the muscle and the letting it recoup itself.
When I first read your question, I didn't think it was a marketing scheme but as I looked and thought about it more, it probably is. When you think about it, muscles don't have minds of their own so how can you confuse them. Muscle confusion is a good two word phrase that is easy to remember and I bet there were a ton of focus groups to determine what was the most effective catch phrase to put on their fliers and commercials. Just type "muscle confusion" in Google and the P90x site comes up number 1; that's a very effective way to get people to your site and see your product.
With that said, I feel the real marketing scheme is in their cross selling of the supplements and accessories. That's where they make the money, in re-occurring revenue from monthly supplement subscriptions.
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By muscle confusion, I would take it to mean that you change types and intensity of workout at a regular interval, say every two weeks.
Bodybuilders, weight trainers always change their workouts. After a while, you reach a plateau where you reach diminishing returns because you body has adapted to the same exercises and regime.
You change weight/reps/types of exercise. I have used the book "Body Sculpting Bible for Men." It uses this type of technique. Low weight, high reps for two weeks. Moderate weight, moderate reps (10-12) for two weeks, and high weight, low reps (6-8) for two weeks. Startover after 6 weeks and your stronger.
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