{"id":172,"date":"2009-02-04T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-07-26T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:41:57","slug":"be-aware-of-shiny-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/be-aware-of-shiny-new-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Aware of Shiny New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend of mine and Master RKC Brett Jones nailed it on the head when he explained this concept of keeping training simple and focused.<\/p>\n<p>The sign of an amateur is in their constant pursuit of &#8220;the next new exercise or workout&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the reality.<\/p>\n<p>Russian coaches have an expression, \u201cthe continuity of the training process\u201d. If you are exposed to an<br \/>\nexercise for only a couple of workouts, your gains from this exercise will be transient at best, non-existent at worse. If you want a lean, fit, resilient and strong body, you must sink your roots deep into your training.<br \/>\nIf you keep taking detours into the next \u201cshiny new thing\u201d, you\u2019ll be a jack of all trades,<br \/>\na master of none and a lack of results to show for it.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend of mine and Master RKC Brett Jones nailed it on the head when he explained this concept of keeping training simple and focused. The sign of an amateur is in their constant pursuit of &#8220;the next new exercise or workout&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the reality. Russian coaches have an expression, \u201cthe continuity of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrective-exercise","category-pearls-of-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}