Rest, Flexibility and Variety for Longevity

Here’s to you feeling unbelievably vital and rejuvenated. Today we’ll continue on the same line from yesterday, how resting is vitally important to your training. We as humans tend to boil things down to schedules. This has to happen on “this,” day, such-and-such has to be achieved by “this” day, etc. We definitely break training down along those same lines. Always squat on this day. Always do pulls a certain number of days later, etc. The body does not know or care what day of the week it is. It only cares about its immediate physical state. How well it has recuperated from the last time you trained really hard. This is the art of physical training not the science. You must learn to be flexible with your training days. To accommodate the reality of life and the recuperation of your body. Now there are times when things absolutely must get done on a schedule. Preparing for competitions, etc.

However, you cannot expect to live your entire life under a deadline forcing yourself to go when your body is not ready and not pay a price. The body is miraculously self-repairing. A wonderful blessing from God. So you can get away with it at times. But live that way forever and you will build up problems. This is one of the reasons our training material contains so much variety in how to set up the schedules. Because everyone is different and everyone recuperates at different rates. Therefore you need to learn yourself well enough to know how many days per week you should train a particular lift and how long you need to recuperate between.

Don’t be afraid to take an extra day if you need it. The world won’t fall off its axis if you squat on Tuesday instead of Monday. Or if it takes nine weeks instead of eight to complete a particular training goal. I’m not saying baby yourself. There are times when you absolutely must discipline yourself to do your training no matter what the situation. However over the long term you’ll have a better workout with less lasting damage to wait an extra day until you’re fully healed. You still are disciplined in that you train hard when your body is ready, but it takes a more disciplined mind to have the confidence to say no when you need to instead of training heavy on the day that’s written down on paper. You still always work to your long-term goal. In the end you get there with less damage and have more good workouts along the way. This is part of becoming professional in the way you approach your training. Maturing. Being smarter and getting better results.

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