How often should you train individual body parts every week? What ratio of training and regeneration is actually advisable for muscle build-up and strength increase? Some thoughts about the danger of clearly doing too much of a good thing for favourite body parts. (Dis-) Proportionality? The most common mistake? Mankind is suffering massively from a central error in…
Author: Michael Lipp
Regeneration or overtraining?
Overtraining is your enemy: it makes build-up success more difficult. So your task is to avoid overtraining. Hard training: yes, but without the danger of weakening your own body. What is overtraining? You are overtrained if your muscles can never fully recover over a long period of time. The problem: You don’t get stronger or more massive, but weaker. You…
Body & Shape join our team
So now they’re really here, our two mascots: Body and Shape. First they nested in our Instagram account, and now they can be found here in our blog. Both are (more or less consistently) concerned with strength training and muscle building to get their bodies in good shape. And to keep it there. Anyway: From now on they will accompany…
Regeneration: What does it actually mean?
All the time you can read here about regeneration. But what is regeneration anyway? And why is it important for your personal training planning? Regeneration means: recovery Regeneration is simply about allowing the body to recover. Recovery means: to get back from a stressed state to a more efficient one. So that one can then give everything again to achieve…
Traffic light colors in myTRS
Actually one should think that the traffic light colors in myTRS are easy to understand. But if you go into more detail, it quickly becomes clear that there are some questions that need to be answered. The traffic light colors: What do they mean for your workout planning with myTRS? The colors displayed in the body chart or in the…