Hello all you beautiful Souls out there!
I just wanted to drop a quick note to mention that I am CURRENTLY COMPETING IN A CONTEST CALLED “Mr. Health & Fitness” sponsored by “Muscle & Fitness Magazine“. The same exact magazine that I have read my entire life, and that I mentioned in a recent post about Gratitude and early influences.
If you feel that I deserve to win, you can vote for me HERE. All you need is a Facebook account and you can vote for me every 24 hours. As of writing this I am in 2nd place and I need to win this first round in order to advance. Your kindness is appreciated.
Instinctive Training
I will go through phases where everything I do is purely instinctive (to a fault sometimes). Training, nutrition, writing, etc.
My version of “Instinctive training” is, I train what I feel needs to be trained that particular day. In fact, sometimes I won’t even know what/how I am going to approach my particular workout until I get to the gym and begin my warmup/yoga stretches. Of course there are other times I know exactly what I’m training, what I’m going to use, and in what order I’m going to perform each exercise in. Obviously it is important, and there have been times over the years that I have followed a specific program and routine, and It’s good to mix things up, in fact you must change things up in order to continue to progress.
“Programs” and “routines” are important, and you should never continue performing the same exact routine over and over again for several months without changing things up. This could mean; increasing/decreasing rep ranges (and weights) week to week, or maybe performing a full body workout in place of 1 upper and 1 lower body day that week. It could even mean switching up the order in which you attack a certain muscle group that day/week. We must always switch things up especially when we know that our body or muscle group has reached a plateau.
Stay tuned for more content! Thank you!
Love,
SBF