Hi I was just wondering what people thoughts are on having a week off. I just had a week off where I did sweet FA, and dint really stick to a diet or anything still eat clean, but a lot. Not only I feel personaly did it give me a mental break from everything but also a physical break, I also notice this time round, when I got back and it came to doing push press I really felt the muscles that were working, which felt strange but refreshing at the same time.
So my question is do you take a regular recovery week? Do you stick to the diet while off or do you just have a active recovery week and stick to your diet? Also how do you feel when you get back to the gym, do you just jump straight in or easy into it?
I’ve recently learned the hard way about needing to take some time off every once in a while. I had a similar mind set as ^above but it didn’t really work for me.
I always tend to have a better mind muscle connection the week after my recovery week and it wears off after a couple of weeks/months. Then I take another recovery week.
Instead of a recovery week, I’ll give myself a “free day” to do something outside of my normal body part days, for the sake of variety and to give my cardiovascular system a break (I tend to do moderate volume workouts with minimal rest between sets).
Last week, it was a heavy push press and jerk day. This week, it was a bench max day…
I find after a few days of not training I feel agitated.
[quote]Grillmister wrote:
Instead of a recovery week, I’ll give myself a “free day” to do something outside of my normal body part days, for the sake of variety and to give my cardiovascular system a break (I tend to do moderate volume workouts with minimal rest between sets).
Last week, it was a heavy push press and jerk day. This week, it was a bench max day…
I find after a few days of not training I feel agitated. [/quote]
Something like this is sounding good too.
Shit, sometimes if I don’t do a two-a-day I feel agitated as well. WTF?