You put a lot of thought and energy into your training. How much thought have you put into your recovery from training? Remember that you grow bigger and stronger as you recover from your training, if you don’t recover you don’t improve.
Some of the things you should address in your programming are:
nutrition
sleep
active and passive recovery
soft tissue work
Keep your eyes out for when I address these forms of recovery in future posts.
This is the “Do Not Resuscitate” workout from the “evil” mind of Charles Staley, developer ofEDT (I previously reviewed the Complete Guide to EDT here.) This workout which is short, sweet and nasty, is being done by James Fitzjohn who weighs in at 62kgs.
The basic rule here is eat Big. You need plenty of calories and good nutrition to ensure that your body has what it wants, when it wants it.
If you are trying to gain muscle size and strength, you should be eating every 2-3 hours. This means you should be aiming for a minimum of 6 meals a day and although total calories is important, you should be following a relatively healthy eating plan like John Berardi’s Precision Nutrition or Mike Roussell’s Naked Nutrition.
