Every once in a while you have that workout where it becomes
a challenge, you want to take it as far as you can possibly, shooting beyond
the realm of your capabilities. It’s great to have something to shoot for but
it’s also important to understand progression, recovery and rest because if you
try to do this every time, your body will burn out and you’re going to set up
for injury. This doesn't mean you stop training.
We all want
to find out what we’re capable of but we never strive to actually find out what
that really is. Workouts come and go and we always try to do better than the
last but what’s really doing better? Do you do more reps/sets, does your tempo
change or do you vary the position to make it harder or easier? In the end its
best to what your capable of but one time, rather a week, month or year go as
far as your body will take you and make your recovery period as long as it
takes.
Most don’t
cross that threshold of pushing the realm of hardcore to one insane way to take
your body to the limit. The reason why because they’re afraid of injuring
themselves, overtraining, doing this more than that and never finding out their
true potential. I've had my fair share of taking it to the limit but by my own
way, you don’t push it like other people, you push it by yourself. There’s a
lot of guys out there that can’t handle what I do but at the same time there
are others I can’t match no matter what I do and I've learned to accept that.
You’re no better than the next guy but he’s also no better than you are, it’s a
matter of how you’re willing to go beyond yourself.
All of us
have plateaus to conquer, but the majority never hit that part of the hill
because they’re afraid. In the movie Pumping Iron, one of the bodybuilders is talking
to Arnold and the other Muscle Beach
