Earlier this week I talked about HIIT (high-intensity interval training) and how it can improve your fitness and help you blast past a plateau. Diversity in training is much the same. Again, our bodies adapt to the demands placed on them. Swimming everyday for cardio is awesome for your heart and lungs but again, if done every day for several months, your body will become accustom to that specific exercise. Now, take someone who swims and tell them to pound the pavement and run a few miles…it is quite astounding how their body will respond. Although cardio health does jump from one form of exercise to another, muscle condition does not. Swimming is an amazing exercise, causing no strict resistance, it safe for most people, running, not so much. However, for this example, I am comparing the two for muscle use.
A swimmer would have a hard time keeping up with a runner and vice versa. That is the specificity of training. Your body becomes complacent when it is called upon to do the same activity over and over again. Change it up. Challenge yourself in new ways. You will be amazed at how your body will respond!
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