This is part rant / part story.
Me and my lifting partner happened to break up with our girls at the same time. We spent alot of time together after that. We ate, and trained together. We took our negative energy and turned it into positive motivation for lifting.
We were training at 11am for an hour with heavy squats/deads/bench, then hitting bodyweight crossfit training at 6pm, all the while eating like madmen or laying on the beach inbetween. Sometimes we'd hit it 3 times in a day.
We were doing 100 reps of chinups, 100 reps of dips, and going back two days later in order to beat our timed record of the "magic 200".
Two a days, drop sets, supersets... we were pushing ourselves...working out almost everyday.
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It was in this time I saw the best gains of my life.
This isn't a boost to my ego, or me trying to brag. It took a blow to my personal life and positive motivation from friends in order to see what I was really capable of.
My guess is there are a majority of people out there who are NOT training as hard as they could be. I see posts like "Don't work out two days in a row", "Bench twice a week?" Come on now. Do you think the pro's got that way from pussyfooting around DOMs and sore muscles?
Pain, sacrifice, sweat and tears.
As long as you sleep 8 hours a day, and get adequate nutrition, there is no reason why you can't do it.
Hell, do it for a month. Push yourself to the absolute maximum. At least then you'll know what your truly capable of before you start to break down.
Overtraining....HAH! Unless your working with extremely high weight or taxing your CNS with some sort of torturous HIT program, your nowhere near overtraining.
This is just a rant of mine, hopefully to light a fire under yours (and mine.) TRAIN HARDER. Do some two a days. Do some crazy bodyweight exercises, make games out of them.
It's not easy to put forth this sort of effort, hell I slack off all the time. But when I find the motivation to really kick my ass, training 5 days a week, eating like a madman... when I'm really "in the zone" is when I see the best gains. This tells me that the harder you work, the better your results will be.
/end rant
Me and my lifting partner happened to break up with our girls at the same time. We spent alot of time together after that. We ate, and trained together. We took our negative energy and turned it into positive motivation for lifting.
We were training at 11am for an hour with heavy squats/deads/bench, then hitting bodyweight crossfit training at 6pm, all the while eating like madmen or laying on the beach inbetween. Sometimes we'd hit it 3 times in a day.
We were doing 100 reps of chinups, 100 reps of dips, and going back two days later in order to beat our timed record of the "magic 200".
Two a days, drop sets, supersets... we were pushing ourselves...working out almost everyday.
-
It was in this time I saw the best gains of my life.
This isn't a boost to my ego, or me trying to brag. It took a blow to my personal life and positive motivation from friends in order to see what I was really capable of.
My guess is there are a majority of people out there who are NOT training as hard as they could be. I see posts like "Don't work out two days in a row", "Bench twice a week?" Come on now. Do you think the pro's got that way from pussyfooting around DOMs and sore muscles?
Pain, sacrifice, sweat and tears.
As long as you sleep 8 hours a day, and get adequate nutrition, there is no reason why you can't do it.
Hell, do it for a month. Push yourself to the absolute maximum. At least then you'll know what your truly capable of before you start to break down.
Overtraining....HAH! Unless your working with extremely high weight or taxing your CNS with some sort of torturous HIT program, your nowhere near overtraining.
This is just a rant of mine, hopefully to light a fire under yours (and mine.) TRAIN HARDER. Do some two a days. Do some crazy bodyweight exercises, make games out of them.
It's not easy to put forth this sort of effort, hell I slack off all the time. But when I find the motivation to really kick my ass, training 5 days a week, eating like a madman... when I'm really "in the zone" is when I see the best gains. This tells me that the harder you work, the better your results will be.
/end rant