Thursday, October 2, 2008

If You're Exercising/Weight Training, Don't Stop!

Yes I did it once again! I stopped weight lifting and became lazy once again! I had it going pretty well for a little while, but then I had to stop.
One big factor is that at the time I had access to my college gym, and after I stopped going. I didn't have a gym to go too. Also, it is way to expensive to join another gym such as 24hour fitness. After I stopped weight training for about a month. I lost everything that I gained in muscle.
Now I have to start all over again! that and I have to get over this laziness, which everyone knows is another work out in it's self, well at least to me it is.
One bit of good news is that when I get over my laziness, and I start weight training once again. I can gain back the muscle a little bit quicker then before due to something called "Memory Muscle."

For Example: There is a job that requires constant repetitive movement, where you have to do the same movement over and over again. Like in an assembly line where you need to put something together quickly and efficiently. At first your not good and it, and your very slow. You have to think about your every move, but as time goes by and the more practice you do, the less you think about it, and the faster and better you become. Until you reach a point where you barely think about what your doing.
This is because you have trained your muscles to remember those movements. However, if you do something different, your going to have to re-teach your muscles to do those movements.
Artists, who practice drawing, painting teach the muscle in their arms the movements, until it becomes second nature.

Well that's how it is in weight training. When you begin weight training after a long period of doing nothing, and you do the movements of weight lifting. Slowly, your muscles will remember those movements, and you can gain what your lost a little bit faster then before.

So if your exercising/weight training, don't stop! It is better to continue to exercising/weight training then stop for a long period, and start all over again.

"And now you know."
"And Knowing is half the battle!"
"G-I Joes!"

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