Muscle Confusion? Ray Wright making a difference
 

On the official site the videos have been coming in as a few of the player have appearing to get a head start on voluntary workouts.

Ray Wright did not get the biggest cheer when his promotion was announced. As a workout novice, or at least when it comes to the new stuff, I hear things like muscle confusion and really have no idea what that means.

I know there is some on TT.com that blamed the old strength coach with all the injuries we have had over the years. Another school thought he had designed his program for late season success and that lead to early season collapse.

Well Wright has begun his new program and the players are noticing a difference.

Mike Briesel and Xavier Adibi both kinda talk about the program on the official site. Check out the videos.

This should be fantastic for the team. The concept of muscle confusion is this: When you begin a workout regiment, you start to see results very quickly, be it in shed pounds, increased strength, whatever. Then, as you begin to settle in to your workout routine, your gains level off, because your body adapts to the excercises, so they become, in a sense, easier. Thus you would have to increase the intensity of the workouts in order to see the same results, which can result in injury. In order to combat that, you cycle workout regiments in blocks of a few to several weeks, so that every month to 6 weeks, you're doing new excercises that use new stabilizer muscles, jump starting the effects and increasing overall fitness. So instead of doing free weights, you work with medicine balls, bands, plyometrics, etc.

I have a buddy that used to be a powerlifter, so he's a beast, but had gotten kinda fat. works out all the time, but still, kinda fat. He got that p90x thing off the tv, which is based on muscle confusion, and got shredded in 3 months, as in the dude could be on the cover of men's health. Muscle confusion is legit.

I've done Power90, so I do understand this stuff. Thanks for setting me on the correct path. BTW P90 works, as long as you do the workouts.

There's always a catch isn't there. As soon as someone finds something that works without doing the workouts they can sign me up.

AMEN to that! I am still waiting for the sit around, eat potato chips and drink beer diet and watch the pounds just shed away. :D

On topic, when Riley did not recieve a contract, and Dick Justice when bonkers, I was thinking....what's the big deal? It's not like we have a great health record, regardless of the way he is supposedly regarded in the biz. Has he found another job yet?

I am glad to see they are trying something different.

Great post and reply. I asked my trainer about muscle confusion this morning. I wondered because I am always doing different exercises for all different muscle groups, and post made me bring it up. You captured the essence of muscle confusion perfectly. I've been training with that method and it has made a huge difference from the usual stuff I had been doing on my own for years.

Quote from Andre Davis on the official about Ray Wright:
And here's the best part:
Still more changes, and some insight into Duane Brown this offseason:
I did a bit of yoga last year, and it really improved my balance. Enough about me though...
Click the link above to read the full article.

I like what I've heard so far about the new weight program. Although no ones confirmed if the Redskins ever did anything like this back in the day. We all know that a weight programs only good if it;s the same one the Redskins used 20 years ago.

Side note, I think the hyperbaric chamber is probably B.S, if Walter is convinced it helps then it probably will even if it's only through the placebo effect.

Stephanie wrote a bunch more on the changes with the new offseason conditioning program.

http://blogs.chron.com/texanschick/2...tioning_1.html