Saturday, January 21, 2012

Need to join the 24 hour gym

Last night into this morning it snowed like planet Hoth over by where I live. I can hear the plows driving up and down the street. I have to go to the bank and the gym today, I was thinking I should probably also sign up for the 24 hour gym today as well, because days like this, where right now weather conditions are bad, but later it will be all cleared up. And I'm sure later will come after my normal gym is closed.

I think the the type of exercise program I've committed to have a complete day of rest in between each workout day has been doing me a lot of good. I'm not getting that overworked or fatigue feeling. Even my hand strength seems to have enough ample time to recover and re-cooperate. A good thing seeing as those little joints, tendons and muscles are so weak compared to everything else.

One odd thing about my program design that I think is going to help a lot with muscle development that I didn't think of before is the way I'm pairing exercises together. Let me explain. When you workout, you breakdown muscle fibers, after your workout these muscle fibers rebuild stronger and bigger than before (hopefully at least). I have a program that combines different modalities (push, pull, legs) together in order to balance out my program and not max myself out in any given day. But later in the week I change up my pairing, so one day I might pair pull/legs and later I'll pair up push/pull and so on. I'm thinking that this mixing up the method is creating stronger muscle fibers and tissue like a spider web. (hear out my theory) Pretend the muscles are pieces of fabric and our workouts rip the fabric in half, then our recovery/nutrition stitches them back together stronger than before. So on a pull/leg day these fabrics that normally aren't that well stitched together are getting pulled apart and restitched across the body making a strong web of muscle fibers. But later in the week I'm ripping apart some of those fabrics we just stitched earlier in the week with other fabrics....

You see what I'm getting at? Instead of just using the same method of working out day in and day out, I'm mixing it up so that I can recruit other muscle fibers in a hope that when they restitch back together they are stronger than just working out the muscle groups the exact same way every time. Sure I'm using the same exercises from week to week, but the combinations vary.

Back to today, breakfast, bank, gym and then the world can be my oyster.

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