7/12/21
People tend to put far too much thought towards recovery, and not enough effort towards needing it.
None of this is rocket science, it’s just the human body – fairly simple to figure out, straight forward – just follow your instincts.
Work had me on call, I’ve never liked that. It’s been pointed out to me that a doctor would be on call, and to that I say “it’s different, that’d be getting a surprise you need to come in and save a life, this is just a job”, so no call having come in to fill in for any call out, up at work day time, I decided that I’d eat and go back to bed.
See sumo wrestlers, the largest group of humans, they eat, then nap.
The body uses food best in sheer terms in this manner.
So the day off from work after all, it’s apple pie and milk at 8 o’clock in the morning, a couple chicken patties, and some extra sleep.
I’ll still lift today. I always do.
Here’s a recovery trick :
If you’re feeling kinda wiped out, wicked sore – eat an extra 1000-2000 calories, it can be sugar, I tend to use twix, dutch apple pie, or donuts, get some protein alongside it, and if possible sleep extra hours.
Life, between work, and my refusal to not lift has me “cutting”, feeling I need a boost, I ate a small 1500 calorie bag of twix alongside my dinner.
The next day?
Felt good, more energetic, hornier.
You can improve how you feel with something as simple as eating an additional 1000 calories of a dessert that you like.
Junk food may not be so bad for you.
Sugar is energy, carbs are what shuttle protein, and there’s probably some saturated fat in there – which basically comes from dairy or dead animal, which gives your body a boost.
Persistence & Tenacity
P.S. After going back to bed and sleeping all day I did go to the gym. One highlight was hip thrusting 5p25 for something like 4-6 reps, and for backoff sets 2×20 at 3p25.
The addition of smith squats has me feeling better physically – you’ve got to load up your body, and smith machine hip thrusts…I’m comically strong there already, AND it’s improving!
It’s really cool to constantly be decent with weighted chin ups.
My pullup ability has really improved these last few months.
I’d always bought into volume, and pf forces me to work with what I naturally thrive on.
I don’t log workouts because they’re always full body, and tend to move back and forth between movements so much that it’s far too tedious to put on paper.
I do chin ups everywhere throughout the season.