Your Program Is Not a Beautiful and Unique Snowflake

What is the difference between a 34 year old male looking to gain muscle and lose body fat who is 6'4" and a 28 year old who is 5"9 who wants the same goals? Probably not as much as you think. Both want to put on some muscle and lose some belly fat.

If I handed each of these clients this program, do you think they would get some benefit from it?

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There may be differences here and there that need to be changed for individual reasons. One of them may have a lower back or shoulder injuries that we need to work through. One may really dislike zercher squats, so we'll change the exercise to something they don't mind doing instead.

There is an obsession in the gym that every program given to a client needs to be the most unique, wonderful creation in the history of mankind. I call bullshit. Individualization is absolutely important to meet a client's needs, but not so much to the point where they need a program that is not even remotely similar to what anyone else has. If that were the case, trainers would spend all day trying to come up with new exercises and combinations and never get anything else done.

Adherence to a (reasonable) program is what gets clients results, not magical the magical program itself.

Give one determined client an average program that took 15 minutes and they will still get better results than the client with the best program in the world that took 60 minutes to make, but one that they don't stick to.

If your trainers hands you a program that looks somewhat* similar to your friend's program, don't freak out.

You likely have very similar goals and started a similar fitness level. Stick to the program and make sure your nutrition is on track and you'll get the results you're looking for.

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