So I got sick of taking creatine and beta alanine every day, so I skipped on them for two days. Then when I worked out, I was sluggish.
The number of sets I could do was less. When I'm on creatine and beta alanine, I can easily blast through eight or nine single rep sets of pause squats. When I was off the supplements, I could barely get through five sets.
In fact, my entire workout was a nightmare. I was breathing hard. In between sets, my body felt defeated. It took me longer to recover as well.
However, during the entire workout all I could think about was how I wished I had taken creatine and beta alanine.
Doesn't that constitute an addiction? I didn't go through any withdrawal symptoms, when I wasn't taking them. But I couldn't stop thinking about them while I was working out, so it was like a mental addiction.
Even more, now that I'm in my rest phase, I'm taking them religiously. First thing after breakfast, I'm getting my pills out and taking them because I don't want to feel lethargic while I workout. If I feel tired while I workout, so my thought process goes, I won't be giving my body enough of a training stimulus to make it want to adapt. I kind of sound like a drug addict. Oh well.
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