The long view of fitness realizes that to keep getting great results, you have to change the furniture around sometimes. If you always do the exact same drills, you’ll find that the body gets acclamated and when that happens, it’s not burning fat the way it used to . That’s why I say you need variety in your workout. You must change to continue rapid weight loss.

You might want to discard this approach to fitness as “old school” or “mythical”, but it’s the truth. Fitness professionals accept this as a fact without questioning. This is precisely the reason that I expect you to change your routine every month. This involves adding new exercises, or doing the same exercises different ways. You can even change the order that you do your exercises in: anything to make your workout different. You can talk about this in the weight loss forum.

This is essential to your program because after a month of the same routine, you’re just spinning your wheels: going nowhere fast. I know that it takes time to sit down and plan a monthly workout, but you’ll have to do this if you want to stay lean and mean.

Another way to shake up the system is by varying the intensity of what you are doing. Go from long and slow to fast and hard, or somewhere in between.

You’ll find that using the circuit method to make mini workouts within your routine will give you many more opportunities to create variations in your exercise routine. The more changes that you can make, the more you will have a productive training plan. There are thousands of exercises and variations and intensity levels that you can mix and match from month to month. Even choose some that you hate because that will keep your body guessing too. Keep changing your workouts so that you can lose 20 pounds.