Not only hard, but also intelligent training? What does that mean? Do you already need a degree for your workout? No, don’t worry: it’s less about detailed medical knowledge than about a smart and clever alternation between training load and recovery.
What is the goal of your training?
Let’s start all over again: Why do you train? What do you want to achieve? You probably don’t just go to a workout to waste time, do you?
If you don’t ask yourself what your goal is, you probably won’t be able to make full use of all the possibilities. How could you? Then you more or less wander around aimlessly, try this, try that – but such an approach is probably not really effective. Those who don’t know where they want to go shouldn’t be surprised if they arrive somewhere else.
Which measures lead to the desired goal?
What has to be done is determined by the goal: If you want to lose overweight, you will probably train differently than if you want to gain muscle mass. The reason for this is that different measures produce different effects.
And this brings us to the point: If your goal is to build up strength or muscle mass, then you should also try to create the most advantageous conditions possible for the build-up processes in your body. In other words: To take measures as far as possible that help to ensure that the stimulation of hard training leads to the best possible build-up results.
Haste makes waste?
And now something comes into play that doesn’t even want to fit into our often hectic culture: patience. Do you actually still know what that is? Or do you also belong to those who believe in the unlimited feasibility of just about anything?
Well, when it comes to our bodies, we’re gonna have to be patient for better or for worse. Because the biological processes that take place after a hard workout cannot be accelerated at will. Yes, that’s right: For example, relaxation measures can help to speed up the necessary repairs in the stressed muscles. But, as I said, this thing cannot be accelerated indefinitely – at least not without suspicious substances.
The use of your existing potential
Imagine the following: After an intensive workout, not only do you give your muscles enough time to return to the level they were at before the workout, but you also give your muscles a lot of time to develop: Shortly after complete regeneration, the muscle is ideally slightly more powerful than before the last training stimulus. And it is precisely at this new, slightly higher level that you set the next training impulse – and not earlier. In this way, you increase your chances of building up your muscles in a healthy way – and do not risk the often common overtraining, which not only reduces motivation, but in many cases also costs health.
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