Focus on these 3 Things for the Perfect Fitness Plan

The longer I lift weights and coach, the less I worry about optimization for strength and/or hypertrophy.

I increasingly focus on:

1. Repeatability (ie, sustainability over the long term)

2. Efficiency (time, convenience, and energy)

3.  Sense of Enjoyment! (FUN)

Focus more on what you enjoy, what equipment and time you have access to, and what you'll willingly do week after week for years into the future.

Those parameters may change over time. Right now, the gym machines, barbells, and hour long workouts may check those boxes.

Later on it may be 20 minute dumbbell workouts at home.

Yet, later on again, your preferences may be 35 minutes kettlebell and bodyweight exercises at a local park. 

All those changes may be temporary or maybe they're permanent. What's fun, efficient, and repeatable very likely will change from time to time (season to season or even decade to decade).

Regardless, be flexible in your approach to resistance training, NEVER STOP TRAINING COMPLETELY, and prioritize enjoying your training and selecting methods that work for your life situation at a given time.

The idea of a specific method of training being optimal is a fallacy and will leave you either bored, injured, spinning your wheels, a combination of the 3, and definitely (at least at times) frustrated. 

Ignore that click-bait nonsense.

Fitness is not 1 specific method.

Strength and hypertrophy training are not directly correlated to one specific method. 

Break out of the algorithmic information loop and train the way you enjoy, the way that satisfies you, and the way that you can consistently commit to training over the long haul.