Thoughtful Tuesday - 6

Okay so as I hope we all knew and abided by yesterday was a bank holiday and everyone should have been enjoying the sun! This of course threw me off though as I was driving back from a weekend away and my local gym was closed. Therefore no deadlifting could be done. No matter though, I'll just have to slot it in at some point during the week, or if I'm feeling really naughty, leave it till next week.

I am leaning more toward the latter and no it't not down to laziness (well not completely anyway!) I've been going heavy on my deadlift for a few weeks now and it would probably be a good idea to give, not just my muscles a rest but my central nervous system (CNS) a rest too. I have been feeling a little bit tired of late and having a long weekend away has meant that I haven't managed to catch up on my rest in the slightest! Now whether I take my own advice is yet to be seen. It is easy to fall in the trap of working and working with little to no rest and blowing yourself out. I'm usually massively bad at this. I'll train, train and train some more, working so hard to get those gains and forget to take a rest or sometimes feel bad about it so just don't (which is a lot worse!) Chances are having a week off will not send you backwards and in the majority of cases will actually allow you to get some proper rest and might just be the thing you need to break that plateau or make your gains come quicker.

Just remember that it's not while your training that your gains will be made, it's in your rest periods that the magical improvements take place.

P.S please don't think this means you can slack of every other week, it doesn't! Having a slow week once in a while though is always a good idea!

Until next week my peeps J