Individualizing Resistance Training With Auto-Regulation

Imagine we performed an experiment where we took one hundred athletes and trained them all in the exact same manner for one year. What do you predict would happen at the end of the experiment when we checked in on their results? If the program was well constructed we’d probably see a bell curve distribution with the majority of individuals getting good results and then fifteen to twenty athletes getting either excellent results or doing very poorly. In the training community, we tend to act as though everyone is capable of looking, performing, and adapting the same. This is the premise on which every training plan sold in mass, and most training books, are based. It’s the premise upon which Prepillin’s Table was derived, and which exercise physiology studies are built upon when they try to isolate a single variable and neglect the fact that the participants in the study aren’t homogenized. The truth is that we would all differ even if we trained the same, ate the same, and lived in th…