P90X

I'm curious how many people have ever used this concept (muscle confusion) in their "in-water" training? If you look at some of the more creative training out there (Race Club) you see this happening... I dunno. The idea with muscle confusion is that the nervous system isn't completely efficient at the "confusing" or new movement, so (in theory) the muscles have to work harder to make up for this lack of coordination. It's actually kind of similar to unstable training, like slosh pipes. The first time anyone bench presses, it's kind of funny because they look like they are pressing a slosh pipe. But the main point of pool work is to get extremely efficient at certain movements. It's actually the opposite of muscle confusion. So anytime you switch to confusion mode in the pool, you're straying from the desired technique, and working more on muscular factors. Which isn't totally bad, but you don't see strength coaches from other sports doing much pool time, do you? It's not the best place to work on that stuff. Kind of the reason we use weights.

I'm curious how many people have ever used this concept (muscle confusion) in their "in-water" training? If you look at some of the more creative training out there (Race Club) you see this happening... I dunno. The idea with muscle confusion is that the nervous system isn't completely efficient at the "confusing" or new movement, so (in theory) the muscles have to work harder to make up for this lack of coordination. It's actually kind of similar to unstable training, like slosh pipes. The first time anyone bench presses, it's kind of funny because they look like they are pressing a slosh pipe. But the main point of pool work is to get extremely efficient at certain movements. It's actually the opposite of muscle confusion. So anytime you switch to confusion mode in the pool, you're straying from the desired technique, and working more on muscular factors. Which isn't totally bad, but you don't see strength coaches from other sports doing much pool time, do you? It's not the best place to work on that stuff. Kind of the reason we use weights.