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Gym talk.

I’ve made a ton of mistakes when I started working out this year and I am still making more mistakes! Recently well this week I realized that I cannot train my legs on back to back days. I still see results but my muscles are on fire!

I don’t want to strain my muscles because my lower body work out is INTENSE! It wasn’t like that 2 months ago but the more I am getting used to my routines and I am adding more weight to the point where training my legs both Friday and Saturday is not sustainable. I was experiencing muscle fatigue, I realize I need to space out my leg days with my upper body days. I decided now to train my legs on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday ( I may alternate between Friday and Saturday)  and train my upper body on Tuesday and Friday as well as a sprinkle of cardio in there. My workout routine is intense! Usually I am extremely tired after the gym! I just go straight to bed or just lay down. I am happy with my routine but I am trying something new this week to see if I will feel better because I am so tired of being exhausted on Sundays because of training my legs two days back to back! Like who does that!? I am overcompensating by doing that. When you work out you break down the muscle and you have to give it time to repair itself so that you can go at it again. Muscle gain doesn’t happen in the gym but outside the gym when you are resting and eating  enough protein. I need to give my muscles time to repair itself on those 2 days because I want to give it my all! Sometimes on Saturdays I don’t go as hard because I already went hard the day before. I know what to do and we’re trying this 3-2-1 method for now on (3 strength training days, 2 core work outs/pilates days , 1 cardio day) we got this ;)