Go Home If You Are Not Stronger Than Last Workout

By infoyogis on August 1st, 2008

Multiple choice question:

Q. You train your chest on Monday and you averaged 4 sets of 8 with 225 pounds on bench press. This workout would be considered a personal best. Your following chest workout, let’s say five days later, you come to the gym with great anticipation to out-do your last workout. To your disappointment you discover that you can barely do 4 sets of 8 with 185 pounds this week. What happened?
A. Your body had not fully compensated from the previous workout and required a longer recovery period.
B. Who cares! You toughed it out and made the most of the workout.
C . Complain to the gym owner that his weight plates are messed up and you want a refund on your gym membership.

If you picked A than say hurray and pat yourself on the back. The rational decision would be to admit the recovery error, assess the factors that could of resulted from not fully recovering (did you take all your supplements, did you sleep enough, did you follow your nutrition plan etc) and plan for success next time. This is the ‘trial and error’ process.

The emotional and irrational trainee would take option B and slug it out. Consider what is actually happening when you take this approach to your workouts:

You will be using weights within your threshold so your muscles will simply laugh back at you because there is no new unaccustomed stress on your muscles. Remember, your muscles only grow if you give them a reason to.

You will be training in the hole and prolong the period of time that it takes to come out of the hole and super compensate.

You will have no new muscle to work with because you have not fully recovered or grown bigger so it will be literally impossible to lift more weight or more reps.

You will be using your precious energy reserves, that could be going towards building muscle, instead to fueling an useless workout.

You will lose motivation and grow frustrated and confused because of your lack of progress.

This is a very tough and mature training decision one must face. After commencing a workout, if you discover after a few sets that you are on tract for a crappy workout than I would suggest to drop the workout and go home. Plan to come back the next day. If your goals are to simply train to train, than you will probably not follow this rule. However, if your goal is to get huge muscles and pack inches of new muscle onto your frame than this is a critical training decision.

To ensure your trip to the gym does not go in complete vain and achieve a perfect and strong body – have a flexibility session to make use of the time and than try and pick up the cute receptionist phone number on your way out!

Want to reduce your Blood Preassure?

By infoyogis on November 8th, 2007

Did you know that more than 50 million Americans have high blood pressure or what’s also called, hypertension? You or your family members with high blood pressure are not alone!
Do you want to lower your blood pressure without medications that cause fatigue, dizziness, depression, impotence, liver damage and more?
If you are interested in a supplement that will lower your blood pressure and keep your libido in tact then visit ”herbal medicines”.

Headaches

By AQc0K9duSk on September 20th, 2007

There are however kinds of migraines where some symptoms may be observed. One type is what is commonly called as the classic migraine headache where in the person suffering from it may see a hallucination called ‘aura’ before it actually occurs. The second type is chronic cluster headaches. If this is the case, you will probably notice that after going to the bathroom your headache, if you have one, starts to subside. To know more visit headache types.