48 hour rest between workouts

I haven't done 48 hours rest between workouts in awhile, but now that I'm back doing them I can see why I haven't been doing them.

First off, I'm sore. My forearms and upper back are especially tender after doing consecutive workouts of  variations of deadlifts.

Secondly, I'm missing on a lot of my lifts.  I did cambered bar bench presses on Sunday, and on Tuesday I did military  presses. My military press went down twenty pounds.

That could be bad or good depending on how you look at it. It's bad obviously because I lost strength. However, it's also good because that proves the same muscles I exhausted and fatigued for the cambered bar bench press were too tired  to make any gains in the military press. That means there is an adequate amount of translation between the two presses,   and the training stimuli is effective. Consequently, there should be a strength gain on my Sunday cambered bar bench press personal record. Click here to see what I'm talking about.


Thirdly, I've had to alter my workouts.  I used to do one handed tricep pull downs on a cable machine but the range of motion in the pull down was limited due  to the straight up and down line the elbow and arm must travel while following the path of the cable. This was causing severe stress on my elbow and even a minor dislocation of the elbow joint. To remedy this, I had to switch to dumbbells to  allow for more mobility in the elbow joint and to relieve stress on the joint.

I also had to stop doing bicep curls every workout. Since I'm doing variations of deadlifts every workout, my forearms and wrists are severely fatigued, and they don't have any energy to hit any personal best records for the bicep curl.  Consequently, I'm doing bicep  curls on Sunday and Thursday, and I'm relying on doing barbell rows on Tuesday to hit my biceps.

Additionally, my cravings  for animal proteins  have increased. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night, and I had a craving for steak. So I got out of bed and  went to the local Mexican restaurant and ate a huge steak burrito.