rawlife’s BodyBlog

   Been having pretty good workouts lately, HIT workouts.  I really missed them.  For whatever reason, I keep being brought back to them.  I’m pretty accepting now of the idea that it can’t just be momentary muscular failure that stimulates growth, but I’m also very accepting of the fact that it can stimulate growth and that training to MMF is one of the easiest ways for me to gauge my progress. 

     I’d actually love to start getting into fullbody HIT again. That was such an incredible rush.  The problem is always getting past the first few weeks where the cardiovascular and respiratory system really keep you from being able to push the muscular system as hard as it needs to be pushed to grow.  Even just writing about it though get’s me excited-thinking about pushing that hard, breathing that deeply and desperately.  The only thing really keeping me from doing it is the back.  When it comes to legs, I really have to be careful and take time to set things up right and stretch in between sets and stuff.  That doesn’t really jive with a full body HIT workout. Although, I have been working really hard and the back and I am happy to report that I have seen a lot of results and I am in much less pain right now than I was a while back.  In addition to that, I feel as though I’ve made real progress in actually warding off future injury by getting the lower portions of my left side multifidi working again-I don’t think they’ve been full steam for years…well, I still don’t think they’re full steam, but maybe they’re a bit more now than they were. 

    I’ve been thinking a lot about my bodybuilding goals lately.  I really can’t say that I want to just put on a whole lot of size anymore, especially size without strength.  Nowadays, size without flexibility and without the ability to function properly and injury free makes less sense to me as well.  When I think ‘perfect physique,’ I think of one that is injury free, strong, flexible, and THEN maybe I think about the size and definition and all that.  Strength is really appealing to me right now-and, In my mind, I equate that granite, rock solid look with being strong; so I feel like the aesthetics will just take care of themeselves, to be honest, if I just train for function.

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