Gym Recovery Research Paper

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I’ve been in the iron game for over 20 years and I’m always trying to find ways to improve recovery periods.

By reducing recovery periods, I can get back into the gym faster, stronger and more efficiently thereby speeding up my gains.

The faster you can get back into the gym, the faster you can grow. It only makes sense the get right back into the gym to train, train, and train again. However...

This isn’t always the case.

The key here is optimal recovery. Personally, the whole point of going to the gym is constant improvement. I want to always improve upon each of my lifts so that:

• I’m always growing;
• I’m constantly challenging my body;
• I try and make each and every workout more exciting and to avoid boredom

I do this by making sure my body and mind are primed for each and every workout, which means I have to be in a recovered state in order for my body to be ready, and more importantly, a stronger state than it previously was. This is the key. Your body must be in a stronger, and healthier state than the previous workout session in order for it to grow quality muscle mass. However, as you improve with each passing workout, the workouts must become more and more intense in order to stimulate more muscle fibres.

The more intense and harder your workouts become, the more time it needs to recover. And this is where it becomes tricky.
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Speed up your workouts in which your body is not accustomed and you’ll be sore the next morning. Add a tri or giant set to your workouts and you’ll probably be sore in the morning. Add an 20 extra pounds to the bar and you’ll probably be sore in the morning. The point is that by adding an element of the unknown to the body it will bring about a response by the body, in which it must adapt. By adapting, the body will change (In our case, build muscle and strength) according to that stimuli - Cause and