Why We Don't Program Random Workouts

If you’re anything like me, your exercise ADHD runs wild sometimes. You see a cool workout online, or someone posts their “quad destroyer” circuit, and suddenly your plan goes out the window. I get it. Random workouts feel fun. They’re exciting, unpredictable, and you finish them feeling wrecked in a way that feels productive.

But somewhere along the way, I realized that “feeling productive” and actually progressing aren’t the same thing. Random workouts burn, they sweat, they tire you out… but they don’t build you. They don’t develop anything. And that’s where things started to shift for me. Here at M2, “just tired” isn’t the goal. “Better” is.

When I first started training, I completely bought into the whole “muscle confusion” idea. “Keep your body guessing”, “switch it up every day”, “never let your muscles get used to anything”. I heard these statements constantly at my local YMCA. It sounds good in theory. It even sounds science-y.

But your body doesn’t get stronger by being confused. It gets stronger by recognizing a pattern and adapting to it. The more consistently you expose it to a specific stress, the better it learns to handle it. That’s literally how progress works.

So no, it’s not about tricking your body. It’s about teaching it. One rep, one week, one cycle at a time. That’s the thing most people miss: structure isn’t the enemy, it’s the secret.

If you were building a house, you wouldn’t throw a few bricks around each day and hope it turned into something solid. You’d start with a foundation, build the frame, wire it, insulate it, layer it up. That’s how strength works too. You repeat, refine, and reinforce the patterns that matter until your body becomes bulletproof in them.

When you do that, a few things happen:

• You move better.

  
  

• You get stronger where it counts.

  
  

• You stop getting hurt as often.

  
  

• And you can actually measure your progress instead of guessing at it.

I get why people think structure is boring. Predictability doesn’t have the same hype as “today’s mystery workout.” But here’s the truth: predictability is what allows you to keep training - month after month, year after year - without burning out or breaking down.

At M2, we don’t chase novelty for its own sake. We chase mastery. The movements might look familiar, but the intent behind them changes; more load, more control, more precision, more intent.

We’re not just exercising anymore. We’re training.