Ok, so my typical week has 5 lifting sessions, each with at least one big lift. Most people will say thats too much already, but I ignore them. My problem is that every day, about 3 hours after I lift/sprint/condition/whatever it is, I feel like doing nothing but destroying some squats, deadlifts, or bench, just something powerful…but that is the last thing I need. Anyone have any suggestions on things I can do? It’s such an urge that I can’t even study, which is rather crucial right now.
Who says you can’t sprint and lift in the same day?! Charlie Francis and Jason Ferrugia have done this with their athletes for a very long time. Actually, most sprinters lift and run in the same day regularly.
Who says you can’t train for half your waking hours if… IF… you have the means to recover?!
Some Olympic athletes train 6 hours a day, 6 days per week.
However, you would be completely irresponsible if you were to train instead of study. Do we have suggests? No. Because you said you have to study. If we recommend something besides training, then you’ll still be dipping into study time with something else other than training.
So you’re left with one option: control yourself.
There’s a pretty simple answer to this…
Either squat/deadlift/etc again that day, or the first time you do it, do it heavy and hard enough, that you don’t want to do them again that day. Catch m’drift?
Prioritize.
[quote]flipHKD_6 wrote:
Either squat/deadlift/etc again that day…[/quote]
How can he do that again without neglecting his studies if he just wrote that exercising twice in a day will affect his studies?
This guy needs to get it straight that he paid thousands of dollars - either his own money or someone else’s - and that he’s not getting paid to lift, nor will he have a paid career involving lifting or conditioning.
And if studying sometimes takes up so much time that you can’t lift much at all, tough shit!
Appreciate the feedback, but I think my post was unclear. Don’t worry about my studies. I have a 3.95 from UVa in neuroscience and biology and am set to graduate in may ( a year early). Really my question was about overtraining. I lift more than most recommend and I lift hard every workout. About 3 hours after I am done, I get some kind of burn, either hormonal or just psychological, that makes me have to do something.
Other than lift again, which my body doesn’t need and can’t really handle, anyone have any good ideas for an activity that would help me release some of this stuff in a physically productive way?
[quote]emiliotso wrote:
Appreciate the feedback, but I think my post was unclear. Don’t worry about my studies. I have a 3.95 from UVa in neuroscience and biology and am set to graduate in may ( a year early). Really my question was about overtraining. I lift more than most recommend and I lift hard every workout. About 3 hours after I am done, I get some kind of burn, either hormonal or just psychological, that makes me have to do something. Other than lift again, which my body doesn’t need and can’t really handle, anyone have any good ideas for an activity that would help me release some of this stuff in a physically productive way?[/quote]
Take up trials riding
Activities with coeds… seriously.
^^^^this. Or if you’re socially awkward you could always cultivate an addiction to hardcore pornography.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
^^^^this. Or if you’re socially awkward you could always cultivate an addiction to hardcore pornography.
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If what you are doing now is working and you are gaining lbs in your lifts, why mess with it? Getting stronger is a combination of ridiculously hard work and using your head. So, if you lift hard but you are a dumbass about it, youre doing more harm than good.
But if lifts hard and is gaining but is a dumbass he is on the right track too.
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
[quote]flipHKD_6 wrote:
Either squat/deadlift/etc again that day…[/quote]
How can he do that again without neglecting his studies if he just wrote that exercising twice in a day will affect his studies?
This guy needs to get it straight that he paid thousands of dollars - either his own money or someone else’s - and that he’s not getting paid to lift, nor will he have a paid career involving lifting or conditioning.
And if studying sometimes takes up so much time that you can’t lift much at all, tough shit![/quote]
He also paid for the gym membership – it’s included in his tuition 
In all seriousness, though, I recall TC writing something that when he gets the training itches like that to do 100 BW squats (like, no bar) really fast. Too light to cut into recovery, but enough movement to get rid of the training itch, I guess?
[quote]emiliotso wrote:
Appreciate the feedback, but I think my post was unclear. Don’t worry about my studies. I have a 3.95 from UVa in neuroscience and biology and am set to graduate in may ( a year early). Really my question was about overtraining. I lift more than most recommend and I lift hard every workout. About 3 hours after I am done, I get some kind of burn, either hormonal or just psychological, that makes me have to do something.
Other than lift again, which my body doesn’t need and can’t really handle, anyone have any good ideas for an activity that would help me release some of this stuff in a physically productive way?[/quote]
IF you can handle the recovery, why don’t you go flip a tire, beat the crap out of it with a sledgehammer, pick up heavy objects and carry them for a distance etc etc. Strong man stuff. It’s fun and you can be outside and it’s completely different from being in the gym. Make yourself a home made sled, fill it with bricks and tow that around for a while. You’ll get some great conditioning out of it.
Thanks for the suggestions. Coeds are easy and boring, call me homo but at this point I’d rather yell a lot and move something. It’s hard to say if I am still getting stronger. A while back I was at 165# and putting up solid numbers (3x10 225# bench for example). But i decided I wanted to condition up and dropped down to the 140-145# range and got faster/more endurance. However, my strength fell off as I did it too quickly, but I think its coming back slowly.
I am definitely walking the line in terms of over training already though. I do BW stuff all the time though, every morning right when I wake up and whenever I get bored at work. Sled work would be cool, but I have no place to put one and much less funds to build one.
You need a tire and some bolts, sandbags, bricks, rocks etc for weight.
http://www.varietytrainer.com/tire-sled-dragging/
This guy says it cost him 7$.