Workouts are an Irritant

With all of the different workout programs that are out there it can be difficult to figure out which one is best, but it doesn't have to be complicated. Workouts are an irritant to the body that it must adapt to. Workouts disrupt the body's homeostasis and cause it to adapt and change.

If you look at your workout from this perspective then all you need to do to improve is to put your body under a little more stress than it was under in your last workout. There are several ways to do this. You can increase the weight, the reps, the time under tension, or decrease the rest. Just remember that the basic idea of working out is to constantly force the body to adapt and you do this by giving it new challenges or irritants in each workout. The most common mistake that I see most people make is that they do the same exact workout over and over, which never forces their body to change.