When embarking upon a journey, there will be hills to climb and plateaus to cross. Some days the scale will not be your friend and others you will want to fall on the floor and kiss that small piece of electronic equipment. The key to kissing the scale everyday during your adventure is the concept of muscle confusion.

Utilized by bodybuilders, muscle confusion centers on the concept of keeping the muscles guessing all the time in order to see the greatest gains. Everyone who is trying a new plan, will know the importance of exercise in the plan. Exercise burns calories and creating negative calories means weight loss; the ultimate goal of a program.

Exercise regimes often become stale after only a week or so. The body knows well how to adjust to the current activity being performed everyday and when the body learns and adjusts, the exercise just does not provide the higher levels of calorie burn needed to continue to lose weight. Imagine a retail manager that walks 30,000 to 40,000 steps a day. Those steps are not counted as exercise, they are simply a normal activity for that person body. The same happens with exercise. Here in lies the beauty of muscle confusion.

When starting an exercise plan, a white board is the perfect tool to have. Not the

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