[quote]IamMarqaos wrote:
sarah1 wrote:
Well, I ate insanely yesterday and decided to go to the gym today to see how it went. Scale said I was up 4.5 lbs from yesterday, so something is def. wacky with the scale. I probably did not lose the 5 lbs I thought I did.
I think part of the problem is mental recovery. I think I may break out Spike for tomorrow. (I was going to today but I forgot - another sign of how out of it I feel!) I feel like I can’t push hard enough, even though I’ll fail to lift the weight. I feel like quitting before I start the workout too. It’s really frustrating.
I seem to run into this same feeling I have now when I just fail before my muscles feel worked. This may be because I am used to training in a non-fully recovered state, because I notice the only time it happens is when I’ve been out of the gym for an extended period of time. Is this a bad thing? Should I be getting used to working out after long rests? I don’t like it at all.
Anyway, pushed through the med. workout. I like these. I increased on a few lifts. I tried using CW’s ideas about trying to move the weight FAST. It seemed to help. I am a little bored of the exercises though. Do you think it would be okay to change them? What would you recommend to change them to? I was thinking just slight variations somehow - the same idea but a little different. Also, should I be changing up the order? Like hitting legs first maybe?
I think the single leg work is good even though I hate it. My legs are still WAY too tiny but the different strands are getting more balanced which should lead to healthier joints.
I still feel bloated from yesterday’s massive eating. Eating will be hard today.
Glad you gained the weight back. Happens sometimes anyway but perhaps the lesson is not to be too afraid to add some fat because I do not think that’s going to happen on a training program like this (unless you camp out in Dunkin’ Donust) since you are shocking your whole system.
I do not think what you are feeling is a bad thing but in the cases that it happened to me I found that I did not eat enough protein and fat at the appropriate times! Try overhauling your nutrition and giving at a good look, perhaps there is room for improvement.
Change the exercises if you need to but keep the movement pattern the same. Try also to stay with single limb exercises, unless you really feel that some exercises are just really beneficial to you.
Hitting legs first should be no problem but I do not want to speak for Chad here, of course. I believe a program should be followed as given to the best of our ability. THat said, nobody knows your body so perhaps reversing the order each time or every time you come in, is key to your success!
If eating is hard, do you every uses Supershakes?
Sometimes it is simply better to dring!
Good luck and really, I admire how hard you are working and how willing you are to put it out there!
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Thanks for your response. Training is not going so well this time round. I’m keeping the same exercises, but I just do not feel as energetic as last time and I’m really pissed at myself since I definitely did not gain weight (scale still being wacky - today down 2 lbs from yesterday.) I feel like I sort of wasted that time and now I’m so worn down that I can’t do a good job on the workouts or something because I’m just not sore the way I used to be. I’m on day 3. I could barely walk the first time - now I really don’t feel fatigued, but I couldn’t move more weight in the gym - I actually decreased on the lunges! I might just not be sore also since it’s no longer a shock - I’ve been doing these exercises for a while.
I do need to eat more. I have been, but now hunger is waning and I’m getting the same feeling I usually get of just being guilty for not doing more - I feel like I should constantly be working! Esp. after these days of crazy activity. I love to eat so I feel like I should just eat and work it off all day! However, I have been sitting at my comp. all day.
I way underestimated the cals I needed. However, do you feel it’s too late - like it’s been a long time since I was doing those super workouts - my body is no longer going to put those extra cals to muscle? I sort of lost that super-rebounding window?
More training is good, but not all the time it has to be cycled. I would stop adding volume, it will allow your muscles to become more efficient and then on your heavy days you will be able to use more weight.