The recovery state of your muscles as a basis for your exercise selection: myTRS shows what really fits today. Increase your build-up success with accurate training stimuli!
Just regeneration? Or even supercompensation?
When a previously stressed muscle recovers and reaches the same state as before the training, we speak of regeneration. If this recovery even rises above the level before training, then we talk about supercompensation.
Well, the concept of supercompensation is not undisputed in detail, and its unconditional applicability in all conceivable cases does not seem to be effective. What is consistent with the experience of most trainers, however, is the observation that previously trained muscles show a certain increase in strength or muscle mass after sufficient recovery. This is exactly what every strength athlete wants to achieve.
Practical approach instead of endless discussion?
So it is the phenomenon that you become stronger and more massive through training – at least to a certain extent. And those who train can take advantage of this observation to optimise their success in building up: This means that previously trained muscle parts should neither be loaded too early nor too late.
The question remains: Which muscles would be ready again today to be exposed to a new training stimulus? And which other muscles should be spared if possible or even absolutely? This is exactly where myTRS comes in: The representation of the “maturity level” of the different muscle parts of your body.
Note: This article is a supplement to the myTRS website.
