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…
Adaptative resistance must be avoided in order to achieve long term weight training success. Adaptive resistance refers to a physiological state in which your body becomes resistant to an increase in strength and muscle size in response to weight training.…
There is no single training strategy that can be classified as the only one that builds strength. Multitudes of strength training methods have been used to successfully build strength. Each method will cut into your reserve of recovery ability to…
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…
In this article I will be discussing a specific type of training that I refer to as Even Strength Training. What do I mean by Even Strength? The basic concept behind even strength training is to maintain a fairly even…
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…
In my earliest years of weight training, I had the philosophy that the longer I worked out, the better results I would get. It didn’t work. I was not aware of how important recovery was for training success. One reason…
Important Aspects of Recovery Over the past few articles, I have been discussing the various components of the SRRR profile. The letters SRRR represent the components that consist of: S=Stimulation of strength R=Recovery from a workout R=Retention of strength between…
I Thought Resting Longer Would Mean Better Recovery I can still remember the excitement I felt as I read a book that told me that gaining strength was guaranteed if I would just follow their formula. The formula being the idea…
