Re: Exercises per muscle group

On Aug 29, 3:46 pm, NETCRAM...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


hahaha. boy do I remember! lol.....I own the disc set of Thundercats!
lol

OMG, they're on DVD now?? Cool! Thanks to stuff like that, I always
grew up with the image that one can be both spectacularly muscle-bound
and flexible as felines.

actually---I feel Great!
I'm just looking for a bit more gain which prompted my question.
I was thinking of adding an additional day to my 3 day workout
---but I'm not sure if I should--

After taking to heart over-training concerns, I cut back to three days
a week, though still at two or three-hour sessions each. I am now
doing four days a week again, but much more sensitive to my body and
what it may be telling me by way of pain or momentary lack of
interest.

Generally speaking, you should be all right in terms of
frequency...it's really just a matter of how much recovery you give
yourself...test the waters and increase frequency (and reps and sets
and poundage and number of exercises) slowly and see...don't be
impatient -- it's a lifestyle, after all, not just a job assignment!
Again: over-training is really about recovery more than exercise per
se. Do what you want in terms of the exercise(s) -- just give
yourself time to heal and grow (that's heal *and* grow, two separate
processes, in a sense, insofar as you have to first heal before you
can even begin to grow [stronger])....

My left shoulder is abit sore after
hyper-extending it on a pec-deck (which I no longer use).

Yeah, gotta be careful with the "initial settings" for them pec-decks,
especially the more prevalent kind where the arms are extended instead
of bent....

again, this is just my 4th month so I want to "educate" myself
to "save" myself from injuries.

Okay, so you're a newbie, then. Well, you're doing all right. In
terms of injuries, may I recommend Robert Kennedy's (of Muscle Mag
International fame) little pamphlet-like treatise "Shoulder Injuries
& Weight Training: Reducing Your Risk"...it's actually written by
chiropractor Cynthia Humphreys, but published by Kennedy...another
interesting book is "Sports Injury Handbook: Professional Advice for
Amateur Athletes" by Allan M. Levy -- though this latter title has
little odd things like an erroneous or just very badly drawn
illustration of how to do a squat....

Yeah, don't get injured. It really isn't worth it. Problem is, you
don't know what your limits are until you've actually pushed against
them, even beyond them...and, truth to tell, I have learned from my
injuries -- like Odin giving up an eye for the gift of foresight, only
to learn that prophecy requires seeing with both eyes -- so that's
some consolation: I'm much more "sensitive" to my body now, as
previously mentioned....

Good luck!

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