A general check in: my thoughts about strength and gaining strength

I'm working out now every 72 hours, consequently I feel better about life.  I'm giving myself more time to rest and repair damaged muscles by giving myself an extra 24 hours to eat animal protein instead of the usual 48 hour rest between workouts.

I can honestly say my gains seem more consistent.  But even more importantly, I feel better while I workout.  The 72 hours rest helps to burn away all the lactic acid and soreness I took on in my previous workout.  It feels like my lifts are being completed with more ease and less fear of will this lift hurt because I'm already sore.

Soreness and joint pain and lactic acid muscle build up tend to mess with my head.  I get aggravated when I'm sore.  Simple movements like reaching out for something or walking while I'm aching lessen my morale and make me take on a negative disposition towards life and I get impatient and easily more agitated if something doesn't go my way. 

So I'm just going to stay with the 72 hours rest maybe indefinitely between training sessions.  The weight I'm lifting is getting heavier, and my joints and muscles really like the extra time to recuperate.



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This guy is hilarious.  I remember how I would see him on youtube promoting some supplement company called Animal Mutant Rage or some other kind of nonsense.


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Now he's saying hey forget the supplements and just eat oatmeal and egg whites.

 If you have read my blog for any length of time, I only drink whey protein while I'm working out.  The rest of the time I'm stuffing my gut with meat, eggs, chicken, low glycemic foods like oatmeal and a small percent of my calories come from fats like cheeses or sour cream. 

I used to think that I needed to drink whey protein before I worked out, after I worked out, before I went to bed or after I woke up.  But guess what?  Most of the time I was sitting on the toilet and blowing all my expensive protein out my anus. Since I wasn't digesting the protein, I wasn't making any strength gains. 

So basically I had to switch to real food.  I never had a problem digesting real food, so I went back to it and hence my strength gains became more consistent.

It's funny how these supplement spokesmen as soon as they stop getting paid, they will badmouth the crap out of the supplement companies they used to work for.