Cycling your workouts;Part 2;
I guess it's safe to say that the winter season is finally over and spring has sprung! Which means it's time to put away all of those bulky sweatshirts and get out the shorts and short sleeve shirts. If you are like my training partner, ted, and i, then you are getting ready to begin your cutting phase of your training regiment, however, if you all of a sudden put on your t-shirt, the one that wasn't tight last year but currently is, you realize it's time to get going to the gym to work on that body for summer.
Last week at a convience store, i was asked the general question by a patron about how he should go about losing weight. It was then i realized that there is no easy or quick answer to that question. I tried to think quick and not go off on some long lecture about working out and i tried to be as simple and precise as possible. So i proceeded to tell him to go about slowly changing his lifestyle by getting and staying active and to watch what he was eating on a regular basis.
Working out is not something you can do for a while and then just quit, i am sure a lot of people wish that was the case. Losing weight and getting into shape should be a life long process and should also be enjoyed as well. Juat ask any pro athlete if he or she is good enough at their respective sport and if they are still in need of practice. Any good athlete will tell you there is always room for improvement and the learning process never stops in weight training or life in general! As i mentioned in the previous entry, variety is a necessary component.
Ted and i are in a two week transistion phase which takes us into the cutting phase which begins on may first. We will stay in this phase all the way up to his show in july. All of the heavy and hard workouts are behind us and now comes the refining stage to see how well we put on muscle over the winter months. No more eating everything that isn't nailed down, our diets will be strict and get stricter as the show gets closer. Just because the heavy workouts are over doesn't mean the workouts get any easier, on the contrary, the workouts get faster, more intense, the rep ranges increase and the rest periods get very short. In short the intensity of the workouts go up a notch or two but in a different way when compared to the winter workouts. This will help us "uncover" all of the muscle that we hopefully put on over the winter and by the time the day of the show comes, ted should have nothing between his skin and the muscles of his body, except the veins and striations of the muscles. Keep in mind also that this time of year gets even more difficult due to the fact that ted's calories get restricted as well as mine,but the intensity of the workouts must remain high in order for us to burn every last little amount of bodyfat between the skin and the muscles.
I guess that you could come to the conclusion that there is no easy time of year for us or an offseason when we can slack off and just workout with no real goal in mind. There is alway something to be accomplished in our workouts and every day that we enter the gym is another chance for us to make that goal be one step closer. I always like to say,"Every day we put our heads down and run into the wall of progress as hard as we can and some days it moves, some days it doesn't, that just means we must try harder next time".
Last week at a convience store, i was asked the general question by a patron about how he should go about losing weight. It was then i realized that there is no easy or quick answer to that question. I tried to think quick and not go off on some long lecture about working out and i tried to be as simple and precise as possible. So i proceeded to tell him to go about slowly changing his lifestyle by getting and staying active and to watch what he was eating on a regular basis.
Working out is not something you can do for a while and then just quit, i am sure a lot of people wish that was the case. Losing weight and getting into shape should be a life long process and should also be enjoyed as well. Juat ask any pro athlete if he or she is good enough at their respective sport and if they are still in need of practice. Any good athlete will tell you there is always room for improvement and the learning process never stops in weight training or life in general! As i mentioned in the previous entry, variety is a necessary component.
Ted and i are in a two week transistion phase which takes us into the cutting phase which begins on may first. We will stay in this phase all the way up to his show in july. All of the heavy and hard workouts are behind us and now comes the refining stage to see how well we put on muscle over the winter months. No more eating everything that isn't nailed down, our diets will be strict and get stricter as the show gets closer. Just because the heavy workouts are over doesn't mean the workouts get any easier, on the contrary, the workouts get faster, more intense, the rep ranges increase and the rest periods get very short. In short the intensity of the workouts go up a notch or two but in a different way when compared to the winter workouts. This will help us "uncover" all of the muscle that we hopefully put on over the winter and by the time the day of the show comes, ted should have nothing between his skin and the muscles of his body, except the veins and striations of the muscles. Keep in mind also that this time of year gets even more difficult due to the fact that ted's calories get restricted as well as mine,but the intensity of the workouts must remain high in order for us to burn every last little amount of bodyfat between the skin and the muscles.
I guess that you could come to the conclusion that there is no easy time of year for us or an offseason when we can slack off and just workout with no real goal in mind. There is alway something to be accomplished in our workouts and every day that we enter the gym is another chance for us to make that goal be one step closer. I always like to say,"Every day we put our heads down and run into the wall of progress as hard as we can and some days it moves, some days it doesn't, that just means we must try harder next time".
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