windwalker
I need an Adventure
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- Dec 28, 2006
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Has anyone ever said to themselves, "I've been working out, walking, running, doing weights..... for months now and I'm not getting anywhere".
The body has a unique and wonderfull ability to adapt to what ever you do normally. That's why the muscles you use at work are not well developed and defined anymore than the rest of you. Like big muscular hands if you type on a keyboard all day. The problem is this ability to adapt makes fast gains in musclar strength and speed harder.
If you take a walk for 3 miles every day at the same pace you will be more fit than if you didn't. You will soon get to a point that your strength and muscle tone is stagnated again because this has become your body's normal routine.
We have to keep stressing the body to keep getting gains. If you walk 3 miles every day, you have to keep your body interested. You have to do hills, you have to add bursts of speed, you have to do something to make it different. Even better is to go faster on some days and longer on others.
We marval at how some people can run/walk/ lift ect... so much better than us. We are in awe of people who have well defined muscles and think "Why them and not me"? One difference is genes, but good genes don't make up for lack of proper work.
I see people everyday at the gym who just wonder from machine to machine with no real purpose, or they will get on the treadmill for a while and walk or run a few minutes then go do a few machines. They never even work up a sweat. It's like just doing your warm up but not your workout.
The people who run/walk so much easier and faster than us have done the proper buildup and their bodies have adapted to the new normal. For a properly trained athlete a 7 min mile doesn't feel any harder than a 12 min mile did for them when they were starting out.
So basicly my message here is why you need a plan and why you need to stick to it. The gains and advancements will come. The build up will be hard and stay that way. But your body adapts and what is uncomfortablely hard today will be easy once you have adapted.
Good plans are all over the internet, in tons of different magazines and most people have enven looked at several. It's not magic, it's not science, it's how we were created. You have the power within you. Use it.
"YARC" Panda
The body has a unique and wonderfull ability to adapt to what ever you do normally. That's why the muscles you use at work are not well developed and defined anymore than the rest of you. Like big muscular hands if you type on a keyboard all day. The problem is this ability to adapt makes fast gains in musclar strength and speed harder.
If you take a walk for 3 miles every day at the same pace you will be more fit than if you didn't. You will soon get to a point that your strength and muscle tone is stagnated again because this has become your body's normal routine.
We have to keep stressing the body to keep getting gains. If you walk 3 miles every day, you have to keep your body interested. You have to do hills, you have to add bursts of speed, you have to do something to make it different. Even better is to go faster on some days and longer on others.
We marval at how some people can run/walk/ lift ect... so much better than us. We are in awe of people who have well defined muscles and think "Why them and not me"? One difference is genes, but good genes don't make up for lack of proper work.
I see people everyday at the gym who just wonder from machine to machine with no real purpose, or they will get on the treadmill for a while and walk or run a few minutes then go do a few machines. They never even work up a sweat. It's like just doing your warm up but not your workout.
The people who run/walk so much easier and faster than us have done the proper buildup and their bodies have adapted to the new normal. For a properly trained athlete a 7 min mile doesn't feel any harder than a 12 min mile did for them when they were starting out.
So basicly my message here is why you need a plan and why you need to stick to it. The gains and advancements will come. The build up will be hard and stay that way. But your body adapts and what is uncomfortablely hard today will be easy once you have adapted.
Good plans are all over the internet, in tons of different magazines and most people have enven looked at several. It's not magic, it's not science, it's how we were created. You have the power within you. Use it.
"YARC" Panda
