Is Doing More of the Same What You Need?
It’s easy to think that if something feels good, more will feel better. More reps, more load, more intensity. Sometimes that’s true, for a while.
Our bodies adapt quickly to patterns, and if we’re always moving in the same directions, at the same speeds, through the same ranges, we get good at that specific thing.
But it means we also get less prepared for everything else, and that’s when issues can creep in. It’s not because we’re doing too much overall, but because we’re doing too much of the same thing.
Think about how most training is structured. We tend to move forward more than backward, push more than we pull, load through the same comfortable ranges we’ve always used, and avoid the positions that feel unfamiliar or a little unstable.
Over time we get good at the patterns we repeat and slowly lose access to the ones we don’t. And we often don’t notice until something feels off or a movement we used to do easily starts to feel awkward or restricted.
Joints don’t just need load, they need variability. Moving through different angles, transitions, and finding different ways of absorbing and producing force keeps them feeling resilient rather than overworked, making movement feel smoother and less effortful over time.
When we have more than one movement strategy, we don’t have to rely on the same narrow pattern for everything, and that gives us options when life asks something unexpected of us.
So instead of asking “should I be doing more?”, it may be more useful to ask “what am I not doing?” What ranges am I skipping, what directions am I avoiding, and what movements feel unfamiliar or a little awkward?
That’s usually where the opportunity is.
If you want to explore that in a structured way, it’s exactly what we look at in a Movement Audit, identifying the gaps, then building simple ways to start filling them.
