Train how you feel. No one ever found out what they were capable of by listening to the masses or doing what everyone else does. I get tired of hearing people telling others where they fall into when it comes to training. Tells someone their overtraining, really. Then how do people on top levels find out their elite. I assure you, not by training 4 times a week for an hour each session. I’m sure they were all told the same thing, “your frequency is too much.” I can show you people who train daily at the park and outwork those in the gym. I never see anyone stopping a baby from learning how to walk daily. Their muscles are overworked according to an adult way of thinking. They try when their ready and often. If I’m not mistaken it’s a total body workout learning to walk. Don’t believe me, get hit by a car and break both legs. Why both? Because an infant can’t use either when learning to walk. They do pull-ups daily until they can stand. The only thing that changes between being an infant and adult is body weight. So you got weaker as you got older because you stop training to walk or stop running because you sit more as a teen. Are you getting it yet. A toddler is strong for years because their athletic abilities match their size until they put those tools to rest they used to do basic things to get strong and catch mommy and daddy to keep up. Adults tend to push them, then try to slow them down when they get older. People also don’t tell children to stop sprinting daily. That’s what children do. Spring until out of breath and run again. That’s how they burn all those terrible calories adults shove in their face. A child will intermittent fast DAILY. No one says a word. Think about it. Most kids skip meal after meal but no one blinks. See nothing changes except your mindset as an adult. All of a sudden everything you did as a child is out the window. Want to know how to squat, watch a toddler bend down and pick something up. You never hear anyone stopping a baby and saying you picked that up wrong. Gymnasts train 8 hours a day. No one says a word except when it comes to an everyday gym goer and everyone wants to weigh in and say your not elite, but train slower, less, rest, eat this way. You have no clue their potential, genetic makeup or possibilities. No one ever told you what your completely capable of or you never tried. So how do you know what someone can do typing and reading on the cpu. There are people who waste their genetic potential daily. There are those who train to reach them that have no athletic ability but worked to achieve and look fantastic. Your training, nutrition and abilities are yours to unlock. Do what you feel and see what you can handle. I turn 45 in a few weeks and get asked daily if I play football. They have no clue, I’m 44 and have a 6 and 4 year old. They have no clue, I grew up playing basketball 6 days a week at 190-220. My current look and weight says different. Even my own father never was athletic, but had a son to grow over 6’5, 315 +, without trying. I was born prematurely @ 4.5lbs. You say you like training for six days a week! So aim for it. If things happen, like life, and you only get in 2 or 4, then at least you made it. You aim for 4 but get in 2? How would you feel then? You want to take a week off after going 6 full days after a few weeks, you’ll feel like a beast and say it’s ok, because the work you put in. Mindset is key. What you determine as a workout can just be maintenance to someone else and vice versa. All factors that mean something different to each individual. I could tell you more but you have people who are going tell you different and think otherwise. It’s ok. When you want train and get stronger as bad as you want to breathe then you will begin unlock your full potential, regardless of anything going on in your life.
