Avoid Strength Plateaus in Your Weight Training Program for Muscle Building or General Fitness

Anybody who has achieved a little success with their weight training is always bombarded by the same question: How did you build that physique.... high weight or high reps? Naturally, the majority of trainees who have been in a training plateau for the last several months (or years), seek advice from those who have proven to be successful. There are two types of people who just can't seem to stop gaining muscle: those with those one-in a million genetics that allow them to put on muscle with any haphazard training program, and those who have intelligently manipulated their weight training program to keep their training dynamic and the muscle gains coming. If you are one of those genetic freaks that respond to anything, then this article is not for you. If you are a person who religiously hits the gym like an animal with a good nutritional plan, but still seems to be merely spinning their wheels instead of making the progress they want, then this article will be extremely helpful.

Before we get into the nuts and bolts of manipulating your weight workouts to avoid training plateaus, three important points need to be emphasized:

1. 99% of trainees are over-trained on volume and under-trained on intensity. More is not always better.

2.The human body will respond to any acute stimulus, but quickly adapts to maintain homeostasis. The workout that did wonders for the first few weeks will surely stall if no changes are made.

The Effectiveness of Online Training

Online training is known by numerous names and acronyms--computer-based training (CBT), web-based training (WBT), cyber-training, distance learning, e-learning, etc. By whatever name, online training is a method of delivering training through an electronic medium without the immediate presence of a human instructor. By taking advantage of technology, training online can be more cost effective by delivering more knowledge in a more flexible and efficient manner.

There are distinct advantages to training online that may apply to your organization. With an online training course you have the ability to consolidate education and training across geographical and time constraints. Courses can be delivered to people in different offices without the expense of travel and with less interruption of work schedules. For individuals with busy schedules, online training courses offer the flexibility of being available when the people are able to take the training.

This flexibility is the strongest facet of training online and the flexibility extends beyond scheduling. For many people, an online training course supplies material in a more palatable manner then instructor-led courses. This certainly isn't true for everyone, but the power of training online to help many people makes it an important tool for your training program. Online training is self-paced and includes interactive tutorials, questionnaires, case studies, self-assessment, and other features that easily assimilate to individual learning styles. Because people have more control over their training experience, training online offers the opportunity to learn in a non-stressful environment.

An online training course combines the advantages of uniformity in training and self-paced training. The basic course is the same for each trainee (while still offering you the chance to tailor instruction more easily) but can be delivered to different people at different times. While a human instructor is only available a limited time, online training materials don't "go home" and trainees can review the subject matter as needed or desired. Support can be supplied via e-mail or phone.

Warning! Mentoring Can Be Detrimental to Your Business

Introduction

Professional and personal environments foster an environment ripe for the opportunity to mentor others. Mentoring occurs both in obvious and subtle ways, sometimes without doing so intentionally. Mentoring can be a positive and productive experience when executed correctly, and it can have disastrous consequences if not, the repercussions of which can ruin relationships and be costly to businesses.

What is Mentoring?

Mentoring refers to a personal or professional developmental relationship wherein a more experienced or more knowledgeable person (mentor) helps a less experienced or knowledgeable person (mentee) to develop personally, do a job more effectively or help the mentee work towards their career goals.

Commonly a mentor is someone whom as attained a high level of recognized experience in a particular domain, such as a parent, family member, friend or a adult role model, a manager, executive or other business organizational leader, and sometimes, it is a person most would not recognize as having the ability to be a mentor. Mentoring can be done by any person with experience, maturity, knowledge and leadership skills and qualities generally attributed to the role.