The True Importance Of Recovery

After H.I.T Training

 

This has to be with out a doubt the most over looked and most misunderstood part of any body builders A TO Z. We get many questions asking how long you should rest between routines and as i always explain, everyone is so so different, one persons recovery time can be half of what anothers is. Some take a little as 48hrs while others can take 4 to 5 days before being fully fit and restored. This subject also depends alot on your training style and what supplements you take.

Training style can have a huge effect on your recovery time out side of the gym, when we say training style we mean the total effort you put in at the gym. Basically if you train with a light weight and never really push your muscle to failure each and every time, your recovery time will be far less than someone who works to failure each and every work out.

How we explain recovery is in a easy straight forward way that hopefully all should understand. As you progress in your gym work outs, naturally  you get stronger and bigger your weights increase your muscles get larger you start to carry more weight, all in all your body is constantly improving in size and strength. So why is it most people only rest between work outs for the exact amount of time as they did when they first started training.

Surely as your weights and strength increase so does the stress on your body and your muscles, there for the more stress you put your body under the longer it takes to recover from the last all out gym session.

This is a area that many fall foul on, i myself train once every 4 to 7 days this enables my body to not only recover from training which takes about 2 days, but also gives my body enough time to build new muscle ready for my next huge training session.

How i look at my recovery is like this. When i go to the gym and train i look at it as if im building a house. First i dig out my foundations, which is my training session, then i build my house, which is my recovery period and finally my new built muscle is me putting a roof on my new house, there is zero point hitting the gym again until im fully recovered and strong ( you cant put a roof on until you house is built and this takes time, food and plenty of sleep ) basically you cant put a quality roof on a shit house.

Now i know that wont make sense to everyone but thats how i how understood the true importance of recovery before hitting the gym again.

For a natural body builder a rest period of four days+ is a must if you wont to progress in the long term.

Heavier weights = more body stress = longer recovery = bigger muscle

Give your muscles chance to grow and recover between sessions, and use your head to fully understand what your body wants and needs, dont just read from a bodybuilding magazine a be blindly led.

As you progress in your body building career the one subject that should never be put on the back burner and should play just as a bigger part as your training and supplements is quality recovery time.

Give it a whirl, after your next big session rest at least four days and see the difference in your body and attitude when you next hit the gym. What have you got to loose.