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Frustrated with my week off!

JustinE22 Posts: 1,312 Joined: 2003/09/18	2004/02/26, 06:03 PM I feel sloppy and want to get in the gym so bad but i know i need to stay out but it's been hard. I feel guilty like i'm not doing the right thing. I feel like my muscles are getting weak and sloppy.I'm just not very happy right now. I need to relieve some stress in the weight room but that's not possible till monday it's going to be a tough weekend. Anyone else here hate their weeks off? I want to get back to building muscle, i also find myself more bored now than ever. Lifting gives me something to do with my time now all i've been doing is sleeping and sitting around. Is there anything i can do like some cardio just to get in there and feel active? Thanks for listening to me bitch:)
	2004/02/26, 06:54 PM yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip boom boom boom boom get a job sha na na :big_smile::cool: -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
ckavsinba Posts: 50 Joined: 2002/07/17	2004/02/26, 08:59 PM i think i might go through the same thing this upcoming week...i have my spring break starting next week and i'm gonna go away for 6 days...without any training...it wont be boring but i can tell my muscles will feel sloppy without any working out....lets see what happens....:surprised:
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2004/02/26, 09:03 PM Justin....yu say you want to get back to building muscle. Well, if you are eating correctly, you are probabaly building more muscle now than if you weren't off. Remember something very important, if you lift heavy all the time, your muscles can normally keep up. But there are other vital factors that need rest, ligments, tendons, nerve endings, joints. You are putting extreme amounts of pressure on them, and they are not as strong for the most part, and may be the best reason for you to rest. How many times have you heard of someone tearing a ligment, or tendonitis?:surprised: -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.... bb1fit@freetrainers.com
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2004/02/27, 12:10 AM Another thing to.........if you think your getting weak and sloopy, that will be how you will feel when you get back to the gym, just concentrat on resting and thinking about how much bigger and strong you will be when you hit the room again -------------- .......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records! ......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened ......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
Ogun Posts: 559 Joined: 2002/08/11	2004/02/27, 12:53 AM I am thoroughly enjoying my week off :) Surgeries went ok, got that cyst out of hand, can now lift big :) Charlie, what is a job? Is that latin? -------------- --There are no versions of the truth.-- Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park II
princesslodgey Posts: 1,748 Joined: 2004/02/21	2004/02/27, 08:11 AM I just had 6 weeks off with appendicitis so count yourself lucky! I found that spending time looking at message boards online was the best way to cope with the boredom!
goldengloves Posts: 690 Joined: 2003/09/19	2004/02/27, 09:55 AM Im on my week off to....I feel great! to bad the weeks almost over :(....Im getting around 7 hours of sleep but I still feel pretty tired....
scejas Posts: 16 Joined: 2004/01/31	2004/02/27, 12:07 PM How often should one take a week off? I have been working out 5 out 7 days since mid January -- when should I target to take a week off...
goldengloves Posts: 690 Joined: 2003/09/19	2004/02/27, 12:09 PM Every 8-12 weeks...Pretty much every 3 months.
agamble Posts: 1,029 Joined: 2003/09/22	2004/02/27, 12:10 PM A job? I thought manual labor was the President of Mexico?
JustinE22 Posts: 1,312 Joined: 2003/09/18	2004/02/27, 02:18 PM Thanks for all the advice guys i think i'll be ok now the weekends here and got some things to do this weekend so i should be kept pretty busy until monday. What a glorious day monday shall be
	2004/03/01, 12:23 PM I finished an 8 week program lifting heavy and added 2 weeks of low weight high rep on at the end. I will take next week off and then start the 12 week mass program. I plan to spend my off week psyching my self up for this lift heavy mass program. I plan to eat about 250 calories per day less than usual and do a little cardio. Other than that I will just lift mentally.:big_smile::dumbbell: -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie