The law of accommodation is:

the response of a biological organism to a given constant stimulus will decrease over time.

Thus, accommodation is the decrease in response of your body to a constant continued stimulus. Noise is a good example. People in a city are far more desensitized to the noise than someone from the farm lands of Iowa.

So, what is training “accommodation”, and why should you avoid it like the plague?  If you don’t then your progress will eventually come to a grinding halt if you don’t recognize and account for it.

Accommodation to training stress (or any biological stress for that matter) is the follow-on/flip-side to the adaptation process. It’s a normal and expected response from a biological system built purely to survive in a given environment. And that “built to survive” part is the “gotcha” in this whole stress/recovery/compensation game.  If a similar load,  same exercises, range of motion and/or rep tempos are consistently used time after time, day after day, the body soon adapts, then stops making progress altogether.

 Look at it this way. Your past life you did little to alter your day to day. There was zero reason for her to be stressed, worried about you, the relationship.

On one hand she is comfortable you aren’t going any where and she can do what she wants with little risk. She doesn’t have to put out, dress up, really do anything for you unless she wants to do it.

At this point any change on your part is going to be meet with resistance. The same as your body fighting the discomfort of training and finally being used the way it was intended. It won’t be easy at first.

She may say she wants comfort but what she really wants is change, excitement. She needs her environment to be on a steady change. Just as your training needs to be. Nature abhors a vacuum equally as it abhors mediocrity. It sucks to be average.

There is no threat for her to gather her biological resources against when it’s status quo. She likes that hint of danger. If not The relationship has stalled. And worse than stalling is the potential for backsliding.

Biology can be a bitch indeed.

Many powerlifters believe that all you have to do is “grip it and rip it bro". Just grunt it out like Rambo. but the training isn't that easy. If you want to increase your lifts you will not only need maximum levels of strength, you will need maximum proficiency during your movement. Any wasted movement can result in increased time under tension, increasing the likelihood that you fail the lift.

Ever wonder why when you failed a comfort test, and you started backsliding why she went after you like a shark goes after seals? Keep failing these, without addressing your weaknesses and Inefficiency creeps in due to the law of accommodation. You must not be afraid in facing your weaknesses. Every day.

It’s not so much embracing the suck as it is embracing where you’re weak. If you hate doing it odds are it’s what you need to work on.

if standard exercises and training loads are used over long periods the body adapts to the point where there is no more growth. That bro over there doing bicep curls for the last 2 months has most likely exceeded any benefit. It’s now about pumping up to get a look and nothing about improvement.

This is why linear progressive programs will only work for so long. This is why using the tool of red pill like an autist idiot is like blasting your way to a 400 deadlift without putting in the proper work upfront. You made it but any growth after will likely stall due to lack of addressing your weaknesses and inefficiencies in movement.

As a man you are defined by your weaknesses. You can only bench 225? Doesn’t matter you can squat 700, your limitation is what holds you back. Your training needs to focus around removing your weaknesses, while improving your strengths. Your body will be under constant change. Every session something else is happening. Don’t keep relying on the same tools everyday.

The premise here is that if you can change your body you can change your life. Whatever you are least at that’s where you are stuck at.