Plowing through when times are tough - will lead to greater success...

DAY 4

No weigh in today...


And after the last three days of hell, a much deserved LOW INTENSITY DAY. Isn't it funny, that if you type "low intentisty" in capital letters it still sounds intense?

Anyway..

45 minutes of a recovery walk on the treadmill 3.5 mph 8 incline
16 sets of Biceps and Triceps...



Pushing Through


When your goal is ultimate fitness, and/or show preparation, it's the days that you plow through that are going to make the difference. Working through fatigue, general malaise and soreness is something that usually separates the "haves" from the "have nots" when it comes to accomplishing your goals.

Its so fckn easy for that little voice in your head to tell you "oh, you did so much this week, I'm a little beat, yeah I'll get back to it tomorrow".


Truth is, fitness isn't easy. If it was, everyone would be in great shape with abs and glistening muscles...

Obesity and general poor weight management is easy.


Everybody feels like shit sometime, and yes, sometimes its in your best interest to "shut er down" for a day... but..


For those involved in all aspects of training, the phrase OVERTRAINING is thrown around all too blatantly.

Moreso blantantly, if you can believe, than the phrase "best wings in town" :)

True overtraining is something that I have yet to see, in my all my years of experience in the trenches.

I've seen tired athletes, who may have "overreached", but true clinical overtraining takes months/years and not weeks... Female athletes can slip in close to a state of overtraining, what is commonly known as the Athletic Triad (diet + excessive training) which can lead to amenorreha and bone density loss, but this is only rarely seen and is most notable to figure contestants or Olympians.

Anyway.. one more day of low intenstiy and right back on the SRX bus!