I also liked "muscle confusion". That always worked well for me.
My first learning was weird though: I was about 12 yrs old and a
Boy Scout. In the back of a Boys' Life magazine (the magazine
for Boy Scouting) was an ad for "Charles Atlas". I scraped up my
change, got a small job after school. Once a month I got a 12
page photocopy full of exercises, "you can do it advice" about
something he called "vim and vigor" dated from back in the
1930s, showing a old-school strong guy in his underpants (if I
was lucky) doing these exercises where you pitted your muscles
against each other. No weights, maybe use a chair.
Anyway, the stuff worked*smile emoticon*By the time I was
allowed to lift weights in school, I was already ahead of the
others*smile emoticon
