To be effective at your workout takes a lot of consistency.
You’ve got to be dedicated to work hard week in and week out, and put forth the effort even on those days when you’d rather stay at home, lie on the couch and relax .
The saying says that “80% of success is showing up”, and for the most part I’d say that’s accurate.
Your workout is no different.
No matter what, you have to do every sing routine, every single day. Even if your muscles are screaming at you to rest, you should always bite the bullet and hit the gym…
Or should you?
Here’s the thing…
Yes, consistency is important. Without a doubt, you should be sticking to your body building schedule the vast majority of the time.Without a doubt , simply bailing on the gym out of pure laziness is not the right thing to do.
However, I would like to bring up a quote from the late Mike Mentzer when he said… “Rituals have nothing to do with science”.
What you need to keep in mind is that the human body is an extremely complex biological “machine”, and that not every single workout and recovery period is identical.
In other words, just because your gym program schedule requires that you must train on days X, Y and Z doesn’t always mean that this will always be the best schedule every single week of the year.
If you wake up on a training day and your muscles still ache, you feel physically tired and your regular motivation to train just is not there… don’t you think your body just might be trying to give you a hint?
Why should you force yourself to train in a situation where more rest time is clearly needed, and when you know that your training performance will be less than optimal? If your body, muscles and mind are clearly still reeling from the previous session, what sense does it make to force yourself to train despite this?
After all, we know that the recovery phase is the ultimate “muscle builder” the actual process of adding new muscle tissue occurs out of the gym on resting days and that hardcore weight training is extremely demanding on the body as a whole…
There is no threat of losing muscle size or endurance, as these losses need 2 or more weeks of inactivity to be set into motion. However, there is the very probable reality of a positive gain in the form of proper recovery from the previous workout and better performance on the following workout.
The underlying key is to listen to what your bodyis saying.
You have to use this method with caution, though…
If you use the mindset of only doing your workout routine when you “feel like it”, then it’s very likely that you’ll start delaying your workouts and convincing yourself that it’s correct to do so when in fact it is not.
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