if any progressive workouts. Not training as often as conventional training
recommends is in no way a measure of lack of dedication to training. It is a
dedication to results that counts most, not a dedication to mere gym attendance.
If I thought that weight training four, five or six days a week would help you
to progress, I would advocate it.. Once you get the full measure of your body’s real need for recovery time, you
can keep gaining for season after season without a break or even any cycling
of training intensity. You can even keep a cycle going for over a year without
needing to change your program. at is over fifty consecutive weeks of
poundage gains from the same program. ey will not be big weekly gains,
but you can do it safely and without having to kill yourself every workout.. You need to find the right training regularity but without working out on
such a rigid schedule that you train when you are not fully recovered. If
you normally weight train on Mondays and ursdays, and your Monday
workout in a given week went very well and you really delivered some effort,
you would naturally feel fatigued on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you had an
unusually heavy work schedule on those two days, or if there was a family
crisis that devastated your sleep on those two nights, you would not be fully
rested for ursday’s workout. So postpone that workout a day or two, until
you are fully rested. Do not weight train if you are still dragging your feet
from the previous workout.. Do not confuse this sort of rational rescheduling of weight-training work-
outs with laziness and lack of dedication. You should be dedicated to get-
ting optimum results from your training. Results from your weight training
come from using progressive poundages. To achieve progressive training
poundages you must rest between workouts long enough to recover from
the impact of each workout, and then rest a bit longer so that your body can
build a bit of extra strength and muscle (i.e., overcompensate).. Rescheduling of exercise sessions should be the exception, not the rule. If you find
you often need to reschedule an exercise session due to fatigue, you need to
redesign your program so that you are not overtraining and/or under-recov-
ering.. Successful weight training is about stringing together as many progressive
workouts as possible. Twenty progressive workouts over ten weeks will pro-
duce far better results than thirty workouts over the same period but with