Thursday, September 2, 2010

Minor change in training frequency...

I started to train on a 4 day a week training schedule 2 weeks ago. The reason for that rather "high" frequency was to be able to isolate my back training day from all the others.

I am now starting to realize that it might've been a mistake to do so. I guess I was bit by the "volume bug" there for a little ..even happens to me..lol - not realizing that I just violated the law of SYSTEMIC RECOVERY by training on consecutive days. In other words, your body needs to not only recover from specific muscles being trained (7+days) but also needs its entire SYSTEM to recover after a high intense training bout.

I might've been able to get away with a 4 days split if I had enough calories and if my workloads would not have been as high as they are right now (more weight=more inroading) - so this might've worked through the beginning stages of mine or any HIT routine..but I seem to forget that I am a veteran at this, and am able to train with intensity levels that just simply drain my recovery system to much in order to train that frequent.

So I will restart my training Monday to fully recover and continue to train only every other day and if needed only every 3rd day as my training log will allow me (no gains in weight or reps=insert extra rest days!)

I hope my mistake can teach you all a lesson too..lol
HIT HARD!
MR
www.markusreinhardt.com


1 comment:

  1. Lol Markus!! i was not expecting this from you. haha. Everyone makes mistakes, ony wise people realizes them, and make the appropiate changes :)

    Good luck!!

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