"Doing more exercise with less intensity,"
Arthur Jones believes, "has all but
destroyed the actual great value
of weight training. Something
must be done . . . and quickly."
The New Bodybuilding for
Old-School Results supplies
MUCH of that "something."
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Evenings. Maybe it's psychological, but I don't feel as strong after 1 meal in the morning as I do after many in the evening. Accumulated water weight in the evening might have something to do with it also.
I have a thought, perhaps if you train in the morning you are strongest, but if you are like me and work two jobs and don't have time for my breakfast to digest. In the long run will it effect recovery?
Especially considering most of my adaptation energy goes towards laboring (steady state exercise) as opposed to a training session (anaerobic exercise).
southbeach wrote:
entsminger wrote:
Mr. Strong wrote:
I wake up, have breakfast, wait about an hour, then workout, the actual time varies depending on when I wake.
==Scott==
and when they open the cell block..
unprovoked attack.
typical troll like behaviour
==Scott==
Yes it is, but but when I see anything Strong writes for some reason it just incites the troll in me, ha ha..
I have a thought, perhaps if you train in the morning you are strongest, but if you are like me and work two jobs and don't have time for my breakfast to digest. In the long run will it effect recovery?
Especially considering most of my adaptation energy goes towards laboring (steady state exercise) as opposed to a training session (anaerobic exercise).
I train in the morning as if I tried after work or later in the day I wouldn't be able to perform at as high a level, would be tired from a busy day.
Tony Williams wrote:
Evenings ... often 8-9 p.m. before the rec center closes, and sometimes as late as 11 p.m. with free weights and chins and dips at home.
I exercise in the evening for only one reason. I'm a night owl.
I do recall being up all night last year, then driving to the center for a workout as soon as it opened.
My weight and reps both increased -- an amazing number of reps compared to the last workout on the leg press.
Adrenaline rush from being up all night is my best guess for the improvement.
But to answer the original question again ... evening. I feel better at night mentally, physically and emotionally.
Tony
i have had the same weird experience. i was up 24hrs because of travel--when i got home it was my workout day and i went to the gym thinking that it would help me fall asleep. i thought i would have a horrible workout but i went anyway--and to my amazement i had the most incredible workout in my life-->i broke records on many of the exercises gaining up 2-3 reps. i couldn't believe it. i had to check the weight twice to be certain i hadn't made a mistake. the weight was selected properly. my strength levels were off the chart -literally!!! like you said it must be the adrenaline or flight or fight response from having no sleep and it was pure adrenaline pushing me on autopilot --very strange.
when i returned for my next workout a week later i went back to my normal levels [down 2-3 reps]. the gain was not real in terms of muscle growth or stimulus that caused strength/size that was carried over during my regular, well rested, normal, workout. it was pure adrenaline and it didn't give me any real gain
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