If you desire to be effective at anything, discipline and hard work are crucial.
You have to force yourself to go to the gym and work out when you would much rather rest up at home .
The saying says that “80% of success is showing up”, and for the most part I’d say that’s completely true.
Your workout routine is no different.
No matter what, you have to do every sing routine, every single day. Even if your muscles are screaming at you to rest, you should always bite the bullet and hit the gym…
Or should you?
Here’s the thing…
Of course, consistency is very important. Without a doubt, you should be sticking to your body building schedule the vast majority of the time.Of course , simply bailing on the gym out of pure laziness is unacceptable.
However, I would like to bring up a quote from the late Mike Mentzer when he said… “Rituals have nothing to do with science”.
What you need to keep in mind is that the human body is an extremely complex biological “machine”, and that not every single workout and recovery period is identical.
In other words, just because your gym program schedule says that you must train on days X, Y and Z doesn’t always mean that this will always be the optimal pattern every single week of the year.
If you wake up on a workout day and your muscles are still sore, you feel physically exhausted and your regular drive to get under the weights just isn’t there… don’t you think your body just might be trying to give you a hint?
Why would you force yourself to workout in a situation where more recovery time is clearly needed, and when you know that your training performance will be less than optimal? If your body, muscles and mind are clearly still reeling from the previous session, what sense does it make to force yourself to get under the weights despite this?
After all, we know that the recovering phase is the ultimate “muscle builder” the actual process of adding new muscle tissue occurs out of the gym on resting days and that intense weight training is extremely demanding on the body as a whole…
There is no worry of losing muscle mass or endurance, as these losses require 2 or more weeks of complacency to be set into motion. But, there is the very likely reality of a positive gain in the form of proper rest from the prior workout and better performance on the next workout.
The underlying key is to listen to what your bodyis telling you.
You always have to use this method with caution, though…
If you develop the mindset of only doing your body building routine when you “feel like it”, then it’s likely that you’ll start delaying your workouts and convincing yourself that it’s correct to do so when in fact it is not.
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