M4:D24 (D324) Repetition Inroad

What's on my mind today?

The fact is that High Intensity Training reveals the truth about your body and your body's ability to push weight around.  You are asking your body to work extremely hard.  The problem is that you can take anything and make it work for you.  However, once you get honest about your lifting this is no longer possible.  What do I mean?

If you think it through, you could manipulate the sets and weights to get to the rep range you want to hit.  However, when you use HIT and you use measured reps (3 seconds up, 3 seconds down) in a methodical and controlled fashion you are getting honest by taking the muscle to the point of temporary fatigue.  This results in the muscles revealing the truth.  They can no longer fake it.

This leads the body to expose itself and the repetition inroad principle.  The body will reveal to you that your biceps can only handle a maximum of X repetitions.  Just go with it.  Keep adding weight when you hit that number of repetitions.  You will see continual progress by doing this.

As far as honesty goes, remember, too, that you cannot squeeze your body into a man-made system.  It does not know that it is working on a 7 day cycle.  The body will recover when it has recovered.  You cannot train again until your body is recovered.  If you choose to train again before the body has recovered, it will not respond.  The key here is really listening to your body.  It is going to tell you what it likes and does not like.  It will tell you when it is ready to workout again.  Anyone can claim that you need to workout every other day or some other scheme, but only your body, involved in the Experiment of One, can tell you what you need to do for it to grow.

Remember, recovery, rest, fuel...these are the things you must have in order to achieve success with your bodybuilding.

On a personal note, I handled scorekeeping and timekeeping duties at a hockey game tonight.  It was a fun time.




I had trouble sleeping during the night, so I ended up sleeping later than my normal time and missed my 5:30 a.m. meal time.  I gave myself a fail on that one.
 
Find out what I'm doing to my body!

Today was a cardio only day.  I did a 60 minute steady state session.  I'm learning to enjoy these. I've gotten the Bible on CD and ripped it to MP3s and I listen to it while I train.  It provokes some interesting thoughts as I'm working through my cardio session.  God is definitely working on my mind and changing my outlook on life in general. 
 
Exercise the brain with the Thought of the Day!

The truth exposes the lies that are told about what your body needs.

 
Get a discussion started by answering the question!

Have you ever experienced the repetition inroad principle (even if you didn't realize that's what it was)?  Comment this post to answer the question.
 
 
 

Mission 2, Day 24: Ouch!

Until tomorrow...GET BACK TO LIFTING!

Posted by Michael Mahony at 9/13/2008 8:28 PM
Categories: Nutrition, Old Missions
 
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