- ...weeks to get back on course. So long as no more than about – days have
passed since you last trained a given exercise, and so long as you have felt
for a few days, you should be able to repeat your previous workout.. If you return to the gym when you know you have not fully recovered, then
not only will you be unable to repeat your previous workout, you may hurt
yourself in the attempt. Wait the extra day or few until you are truly
recovered.. If the sickness kept you out of the gym for a protracted time, then you must
start back with moderate weights and intensity, and take two or three weeks
(or longer, if necessary) to progressively build back to where you were before
being struck down by sickness. en return to the poundage progression
scheme you were following pre-sickness.. If you drive yourself to train very hard despite being sick, even if just in the
early stage of sickness, you are laying the ground for an infection taking a
firm grip on you. You may even get something so seriously embedded that
you cannot shake it off. It may keep returning on and off for six months or
so, or even drag on for over a year, and thus devastate your training.. Never train when you are sick. Even a minor cold or sore throat, if trained
through, could blow up into something serious. Wait until you are feeling
well, and then return to training. e older you are the more strictly
you need to follow this advice, and the more heavily you will feel the conse-
quences if you do not follow it.. Advanced training
. As you grow bigger and stronger your training will evolve to meet your
changing needs. As you become more advanced, i.e., once you are at or
beyond the –– numbers described in Chapter , or a compa-
rable achievement relative to gender, age or bodyweight, you may need to try
some methods of training different from those that took you to advanced
status in the first place, in order to grow further. e training methods that
took you to advanced status may take you to super-advanced status, but on
the other hand they may not. Experimentation and experience will teach
you which is the case for you.. Even at advanced-level training you have the same components to vary as
you do do at any stage of training: exercise selection, different training inten-