Improving Your Effort
I'm often emailed by people asking how they can get more out of their current workouts. People mostly suggest the following
-Do more total work
-Use more weight
-Switch their training focus
They're all wrong. You have to look at what's holding you back first. In a previous blog I talked about how my own training had slacked through both work and and a lack of overall motivation.
What did I do to improve my effort and push my results through the roof?
Focus on recovery
I was so drained through both a lack of carbs and decreased focus on what I wanted to achieve. I took a few days off, restructured my programming and more importantly ingested more carbs . They won't really make you fat, it's a dumb misconception that makes people hold themselves back.
Alter volume
I didn't "go" all the time, when I felt like I needed to pull back I did. I didn't follow traditional training advice and only drop a set or two, I dropped more then that.
Warm up more
Not on a treadmill or a bike but through dynamic warm-ups that fired what I needed to fire. If it was an upper body day I did more upper body warm-ups
Y's,W's, Scap Push-ups
If it was a lower body day
bridges,clams, psoas stretching
It was that simple, people over think training way too much. Do less then you did the week before, recover through nutrition and prime your body to train. It's your central nervous system people, that's the motor.
Improving Your Effort
I'm often emailed by people asking how they can get more out of their current workouts. People mostly suggest the following
-Do more total work
-Use more weight
-Switch their training focus
They're all wrong. You have to look at what's holding you back first. In a previous blog I talked about how my own training had slacked through both work and and a lack of overall motivation.
What did I do to improve my effort and push my results through the roof?
Focus on recovery
I was so drained through both a lack of carbs and decreased focus on what I wanted to achieve. I took a few days off, restructured my programming and more importantly ingested more carbs . They won't really make you fat, it's a dumb misconception that makes people hold themselves back.
Alter volume
I didn't "go" all the time, when I felt like I needed to pull back I did. I didn't follow traditional training advice and only drop a set or two, I dropped more then that.
Warm up more
Not on a treadmill or a bike but through dynamic warm-ups that fired what I needed to fire. If it was an upper body day I did more upper body warm-ups
Y's,W's, Scap Push-ups
If it was a lower body day
bridges,clams, psoas stretching
It was that simple, people over think training way too much. Do less then you did the week before, recover through nutrition and prime your body to train. It's your central nervous system people, that's the motor.