It was June 1992, and it was our honeymoon. That I would spend the rest of my life with my wife was somehow clear to me. But that I would find something here in Hawaii that our then still unborn daughter would be able to use 27 years later, I certainly didn’t suspect at the time.
Granted: On a honeymoon, you might think about something other than working out, but you want to stay fit for your newlywed. So while we were there, I had to buy an original copy of Muscle & Fitness magazine in the USA, the center of Joe Weider’s bodybuilding empire.
It was the July 1992 issue, and even then an article by John Comereski caught my attention: “Formula for Recovery” it said on page 104. Exciting: Supposedly different muscle groups would also need different lengths of time to recover from previous training stress. The advice not to exercise for 48 hours suddenly seemed questionable.
And lo and behold, our daughter Julia was later to address this exact topic as part of her fitness trainer diploma thesis. Title: “Optimization of muscle building under consideration of regeneration and supercompensation”. And part of the sources used was a table from ISSA, which had already been published in this article (from 1992!).
Funny: I have exactly one magazine from the USA, and it has exactly what Julia needs almost 3 decades later. Premonition? Fate? Or simply coincidence?
Anyway: Based on this article and the diploma thesis, myTRS was developed as an online tool for regeneration-based build-up training. The motto: train today only what is ready for a new training stimulus again. More at www.mytrs.at
