1. Increases focus and motivation! Hitting the gym with no plan will cause you to waste time, lose motivation, and with no focus becomes no progress.
2. Get stronger over time. Completing the same exercises each week means you can focus on building the intensity and perfecting form. Tracking your progress with each exercise will ensure you apply progressive overload, improve and get stronger.
3. Provides structure and creates goals! You won’t see results guessing what to do in the gym or changing it up every week. Following a program will urge you to strive for better, setting goals you want to achieve each training session.
4. Prevent under or overtraining. It is very easy to think more is better and over train in the gym with very little quality reps. Others, who are maybe less confident or experienced in the gym, are likely to undertrain and take it too easy achieving very little from their training. A training program specific to your goals and ability should provide you with the optimal training volume to progress and ensure you get the most from your training.
5. Make it specific to you- your lifestyle and your goals. Your goals and your situation are specific to you and so your program should fit. Your training frequency (how many times your train per week) should be realistic and something you can stick to. Your program should match your training frequency to ensure you don’t miss out on any potential progress.