To be successful at anything takes a lot of consistency.
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.
The same principals apply to your gym program.
You’ve got to stay tight to weight training and get yourself on the equipment even when it’s the last thing you want to do. If you want to gain muscle size and stamina as fast as possible, you should never, ever miss a workout…
Or should you?
Here’s the thing…
Without a doubt, consistency is very important. Of course, you should be sticking to your workout schedule the vast majority of the time.Yes , 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 body building schedule requires that you must train on days X, Y and Z doesn’t always mean that this will always be the optimal schedule every single week of the year.
If you wake up on a training day and your muscles still ache, you feel physically drained and your regular motivation to workout just isn’t there… don’t you think your body just might be trying to tell you something?
Why should you force yourself to get under the weights in a situation where more rest time is definitely needed, and when you know that your training performance will be less than optimal? If your body, muscles and mind are clearly still recovering 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 threat of losing muscle size or stamina, as these decreases need 14 days or more of inactivity to be set into motion. But, there is the most probable scenario of a positive gain in the form of proper rest from the previous workout and better performance on the following workout.
The most important thing is to listen to what your bodytells you.
You always have to use this method with caution, though…
If you get the mindset of only doing your body building routine when you “feel like it”, then it’s very 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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