Why are you taking medication for mental health if you're 17 and healthy? I'm sure everyone here initially got into lifting to look better, but it's not going to happen over night. I know kids these days demand instant gratification; I'm not saying you're one of them, but real goals/results take time.
Make long term goals instead of short. You need to find a maintainable workout schedule where lifting will be a lifestyle.
I'm making more progress training less frequently. Wow.
I'm making more progress training less frequently. Wow.
Good point.Imagine how jacked you'd be if you stopped altogether.
At 17, you probably shouldn't be having aches and pains but essentially it's your body trying to tell you something.
You're burning the candle at both ends and somethings gotta give.
How long have you been training like that for? The whole time? Try running a deload or a different program for a couple of months, even going to a 3 day week for a while. Give the body some rest.
Have you seeked any advice for the issues? Is it joint problems or muscle? You may be doing long term damage or may just have tightness there that you need to rectify.
Do you supplement anything for your joints? What kind of recovery work do you do?
If you have been using some of the anti-psychotics, they will fuck you up physically.
You're new to this and have gone straight to the high volume end of the scale. You shouldn't need to train like this at this stage and should take full advantage of your young body's capabilities. There will be plenty of time and need to push harder as you progress and it becomes harder to gain. If your progress has seemed disproportionate to the effort you have been putting in and time spent in the gym, reassess your regime. If what your write in your log is accurate I'm surprised it's taken this long for it to catch up with you considering you've only been training for a year.
when i read your training log, i see the numbers but not warmups?
do you just load up the bar and work or do you start with the bar and add weight slowly getting to the working sets? i find this progessive lefting of steadily increasing the weight, although adds volume, and means your max lift won't be as heavy, preserves your joints!
also, have you considered training every other day to give the body some rest. you can still grow like a weed training every other day.
nutrition and sleep will also be major factors that need just as much attention, if not more, than the training.
What Repacked and C_T said. You don't have to kill yourself every workout, you just need to progress over time. Stop going to failure on every single set. If you're so banged up, stay at least a rep or two clear of failure and stop doing shit that hurts, there's plenty of movements to choose from.
Work up to your working weights. Don't be like 90% of gym goers who whack on a couple of 20s for their first set of bench and proceed to rep it till absolute failure.
Here is my take on it @Puggy ;
Either you and I have the same disease or it's just the way it works, everyone one of my mates that train says the same thing "the better you look the worse you feel" we compare pain and injuries the bags under our eyes and levels of inflexibility.
Its been like that for years, we all agree it's a kunce of a sport, if you can even call it that. Discomfort and tiredness has always been present and always will be if I continue to train, pain at night, can't get comfortable, wake up like zombie, all par for the course.
Now kunce on here will tell you that you must be doing somethig wrong, check this and check that cos you should be feeling fantastic load of shit, maybe they know a secret, or maybe they are freaks, don't know, don't care.
If you're training balls out and growing, that is the way you will continue to feel, unless you stop, and than your mind starts to hurt, which is worse.
I'm glad I started later in life when I understood my limitations and was smart enough to know when my body needed a break. When I was younger I probably would've killed myself trying to make an extra rep or add lbs to the bar. You're young and have your whole life in front of you, take a break and refresh, you'll be better for it.
Why are you taking medication for mental health if you're 17 and healthy? I'm sure everyone here initially got into lifting to look better, but it's not going to happen over night. I know kids these days demand instant gratification; I'm not saying you're one of them, but real goals/results take time.
Make long term goals instead of short. You need to find a maintainable workout schedule where lifting will be a lifestyle.
yeah dont ever bypass warmups, they are the body's way of unlocking the door before you get in your home, warming the car up before you drive etc.
Thanks for you analogy, appreciated. It's important isn't it!
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