Learning to back off…
A couple weeks back, I was going into the gym with a renewed enthusiasm, that had me on the crazy euphoric high. Everytime I went, I was hitting new highs, and I was often doing workouts based on heavy basic movements. This left my body feeling like I was continually beating beaten with a bat, an I soon found myself with a nasty cold. The cold held on for a week… crazy night sweats, hacking up a lung. This frustrated me to the ‘nth degree, as all I wanted to do, was get back in the gym for more punishing work. After getting over the cold, and going through another full cycle of my body, I found a lack of drive… what the f? I can’t workout for 4 intense days a week, and not become overtrained?
Well… this week, I decided I mix it up a little. I’m workout a little less like a "powerlifter" (not that I am one at all), and a little more like a "bodybuilder". I’ve been doing a lot more 45min workouts, using pre-exaustion, and supersets… walking outa the gym very shortly after I’ve felt I can’t get any more blood into the muscle. So far so good. My back actually reacted really well to it’s "blood flush" workout… I’ll try to stay on this program for a couple weeks, then switch by to my "power-phase" for a couple weeks. Time will tell.
