Is the “muscle confusion” concept described in P90x literature for real?
It is a common concept that I’ve heard quite a bit from many folks. There are some that don’t believe it’s real and others that totally buy into it. From personal experience, if I don’t change my workouts, it seems that body adapts and it’s harder to build muscle and/or lose weight. The reality is that I’m probably not giving my muscles enough time to rest and regenerate themselves. Changing up the exercises like P90x program, focuses your attention on different muscle groups, which gives rest to the ones you just worked for the past couple of weeks and lets them repair themselves. This isn’t necessarily muscle confusion but working the muscle and the letting it recoup itself. When I first read your question, I didn’t think it was a marketing scheme but as I looked and thought about it more, it probably is. When you think about it, muscles don’t have minds of their own so how can you confuse them. Muscle confusion is a good two word phrase that is easy to remember and I bet there were
