Recovery workouts can be used as a weight training option when the plague of adaptive resistance strikes. Adaptive resistance occurs when the demand of your workouts is greater than your supply of recovery power. The effect is that your body…
No one likes to work hard without ever receiving any of the benefits from their hard work, but that’s exactly what happens without proper recovery between workouts. Overtraining is one of the most common causes of inadequate recovery. On…
Not all recovery between workouts is the same. Specifically, it is anabolic-adaptive recovery that must occur between workouts if your goal is to grow bigger and/or stronger. Many people assume that this will automatically occur from doing regular workouts, but…
A Second Training Mistake, 72 Hours of Recovery In the last article I discussed that the biggest training mistake I had ever made in training was to believe that I must continuously find ways to train harder in order to…
