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…
If I want to build muscle, it doesn’t matter what kind of training I do. The main thing to do is strength training … isn’t it? Power as a vague term? At first glance, it seems clear what is meant when one speaks of strength: someone is physically powerful, strong even. But the closer you look, the more blurred the…
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…
The question of how long muscle regeneration lasts is not easy to answer: Not only the intensity of the previous training is important, but also the ability of the muscle group itself to regenerate. What is regeneration? Muscle regeneration in our context means the restoration of a muscle that has been damaged in its finest structures by previous intensive stress…