Circuit Vs Periodized Weight Training

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Aaron Hale, at Fitness For Life, in Wilmington, North Carolina, talking to you today a little bit, about the differences between circuit weight training, and periodization weight training. First, circuit weight training is where we select six to ten, maybe a few more major movements, like the bench press, or the squat press, and we use those movements, and we run a circuit, in which we don't really fluctuate the weight. We're always doing a lot of weight, and we have specific ranges. Typically, in circuit weight training, it's anywhere between eight and ten reps, and it's usually about three sets per, so it's a very set, very specific sort of workout regiment. Whereas, with periodization, you're fluctuating between what we call low intensity, high rep ranges, or high volume, where we're doing lighter weight, with more repetitions at one point, and we work up to a point, where we're doing high intensity, low volume workouts, similar with what you would do in a circuit workout, where you would move from, you would figure out what is your maximum rep range, where you can do one movement, and then you try to keep it around somewhere close to that, where you're doing anywhere between two to six repetitions, with larger weights, so you're actually working up to a desired strength point, and then it gets kind of a peak and valley sort of workout period, where you're kind of fluctuating between that low intensity, high rep, all the way back up to that low rep, high intensity sort of workout, in which you're trying to reach for a goal. For some people, periodization workouts could be, a marathon runner who's trying to increase their time, where they would do several different intervals. For weight training, say you're trying to go from a bench press of one twenty five, and you want to get to two hundred pounds, on the bench press, so you would incorporate more of that periodization workout, as opposed to the circuit, which this circuit is kind of a strength maintenance. Whereas periodization, you're trying to work up to a particular goal, so just a few things, that show the contrast between circuit and periodization weight training."