At what point should you change the exercises in your workout routine (weeks, months etc)?
This can depend greatly on the person who is doing the exercise. If I’m training a new exerciser, someone who is not at all accustomed to physical fitness and exercise then I will spend the first few weeks with very basic movement and concentrate on making sure that they using correct form before going on to anything else. It’s critical to ensure that you aren’t putting your client at risk of injury above all else. Once they have passed that I will change the program slightly, adding a few more variables in like balance training, multi-planar movements, etc. From then on I switch a clients program up every 6-8 weeks. It doesn’t need to be big changes or an entire new routine every time, either. Just a few small changes and moving things around in the order that we do them are enough to keep the muscles from getting too smart and lazy! 🙂