![]() ![]() ![]() But, if you decide you MUST do something, then you ALWAYS find a way. What’s wrong with you?! I know, it sounds super lazy and unproductive, as well as being impractical in our daily routine. This is pretty interesting…Įnjoying time with the kids – Frisbee, Golf Pitching, Trampoline, Basketball and Cycling #2 – Binaural Napping – The Unexpected Habit Of The Successful A Daily Nap with Binaural Beats – See below.Other Daily Commitments – 10-20mins of mindfulness/meditation every day, ZMA supplementing, Cold Contrast Showers and Magnesium Topical Spray before bed.I hate doing that, so just reinforced the need to be lights-off by 10:30pm. Prioritised ~7h of sleep over everything else – Instead of responding to a late night by cutting back on available sleep time, I opted to push things out the following morning to get my 7h or so.Actually uplifted calories from 3,500 to 3,700 kcal. Ate Really Well – nutritious, healthy and restorative – To recover, I decided to max out on nutrients as oppose to chill consumption down due to less effort.Shooting Hoops, Frisbee, Kids Fun & Gardening – We had good weather, so took the chance to have fun, get some active recovery in the garden and do manual work in sunshine – soaking up all the Vitamin D (see importance of VitD in this AdapNation article).Burnt calories, but not stressful on the body. Nature Walks – grabbed a couple of long walks with the kids, wife and dogs. ![]() Replaced warm-down cardio in the gym for movement outside instead. Didn’t really do Steady State Either – Instead, a little walking or couple mins of easy skipping to warm up for my workouts. Instead to wake up my lymph and immune system. Rebounded for 5mins a day first thing – Not for cardio benefits.Felt great to feel my body go through full range of motion. Randomly in the house when I felt I needed it. Loaded in MUCH more mobility, stretching and rolling – Before workout.5 days of training, but hardly breaking a sweat. Followed APR-18 #HyperWorkouts, but at ~50% weight – Chance to focus on form, take it easy and get a strong muscle-mind connection.Goldilocks principle of Supercompensation Here’s What I Did But I am starting to realise that More = More for sure, but with more WORK there needs to be more REST, and they must weave into one another to maximise Supercompensation (aka Tha Gainz). Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE working hard in the gym and on my body – everything it stands for and all the qualities of mind it creates (minus the BS narcissism). Body is feeling both strong and flexible, with less tension and low-level anxiety.Īfter researching and writing the Chronic Exercise & Life Fatigue –> Are You GAS’d Out, Not Making Progress Or Stressed? 3-Part Article, it really hit home I needed to take my own medicine, and stop these thoughts of – ‘because I can, I must’, ‘more volume = more gains’ and ‘I AM the gym’. Last week I spoke about the feeling of a cold coming on, but only in the morning and night, and how it felt more like a sign to slow down. More enthusiasm than ever to make deliberate progress in the gym, my body and work. And honestly, what a difference a week makes! THEME OF THE WEEK: #1- Deload Week & #2- Binaural Napping #1 – Feeling Great After The Recovery Deload WeekĪs per last weeks (W20) Body & Mind Progress Journal, I finally FULLY committed to a Deload week – first time probably since October-November 2017 (>7 months ago). ![]()
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