{"id":1807,"date":"2016-11-04T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realmuscleforum.com\/content\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2024-06-07T22:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T22:43:21","slug":"workouts-shouldnt-leave-trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realmuscleforum.com\/content\/workouts-shouldnt-leave-trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Workouts Shouldn\u2019t Leave You Trashed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love a tough workout. I love that feeling of exhaustion after pushing myself hard in spin, or finishing the last interval of a sprint workout knowing I could not have possibly run faster. I know I\u2019m not alone because every class description I read gloats how, \u201cyou\u2019ll crawl out of this class!\u201d, or, \u201cthis class will kick your butt!\u201d. These are appealing notions because we feel when we are trashed after a workout, or so sore the next day going down stairs is a process, we\u2019re making ourselves better, when in reality we\u2019re breaking ourselves down.<\/p>\n

\"Dan<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is why grueling workouts won\u2019t always get you to your goals:<\/p>\n

Exhaustion Doesn\u2019t Equal Effective<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spent last Saturday on my hands and knees cleaning the entirety of our wood floors, steps included. I lounged on the couch afterwards, and the next day my shoulders were more sore than after BodyPump.<\/p>\n

Does this mean I should throw out my training program and clean my floors everyday to see results? No! I wasn\u2019t building muscle this way, just overtiring the same muscles with a repetitive motion, and feeling tired afterwards.<\/p>\n

Like I said before, I love the feel of a tough workout. But that\u2019s just it, I love the feel of it. It\u2019s an emotional boost to tough something out, but there isn\u2019t always a physiological translation.<\/p>\n

No Recover Means No Rebuilding<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have trained for 7 marathons, and the toughest part – mentally – of training is the taper. 2-3 weeks before the race, you drastically reduce your training volume. My long runs of 14-20 miles are cut to 6-8, and my weekly mileage goes from 40-50 miles down to under 25. Physically it\u2019s easy to run less, but mentally all I\u2019m thinking, \u201chow am I going to run a marathon, I\u2019m barely running!\u201d Luckily after 7 marathons I trust the taper.<\/p>\n

During an intense workout, your muscles are being broken down, developing tiny tears. They need to repair themselves after a tough workout, through a cellular process (protein synthesis) that rebuilds broken down tissue, resulting in a bigger and stronger muscle. (This is a very basic explanation, and the exact process is still being studied). This happens when your body is resting, so giving ample time for them to recover is imperative.<\/p>\n

If you repeatedly perform grueling workout after grueling workout, you eliminate the rebuilding process, thus spinning your wheels. Plus, without recovery time, you\u2019ll burn out fast by not being able to give your all while running on fumes.<\/p>\n

Stress Equals Stress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work deadlines, family drama, and minimal sleep are different types of stress in your eyes, but your body just recognizes that it is stressed. Add strenuous exercise on top of that and you\u2019re compounding more stress onto your pile. True, you need to stress and challenge your muscles for them to change, but too much stress will throw off your hormone balance, raising your cortisol levels. This doesn\u2019t mean you should never work out intensely, but if there are other vary stressful circumstances in your life at the time, throwing everything you have left into intense workouts every day is not going to get you anywhere.<\/p>\n

This is not a post intended to scare you away from a tough workout. It is a post to encourage you to look at your training and figure out how often and where tough workouts have their place. It\u2019s also to give you relief, that if you aren\u2019t crawling out of your bootcamp class, it doesn\u2019t mean you didn\u2019t get a great workout!<\/p>\n

Writer\u2019s Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Chabert
\nWriting from Copenhagen, Denmark, Dan is an entrepreneur, husband and ultramarathon distance runner. He spends most of his time on runnerclick.com<\/a>, monicashealthmag.com<\/a>, golfoid.com, edgehunting.com,\u00a0www.runners101.com<\/a> & nicershoes.com and he has been featured on runner blogs all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love a tough workout. I love that feeling of exhaustion after pushing myself hard in spin, or finishing the last interval of a sprint workout knowing I could not have possibly run faster. I know I\u2019m not alone because every class description I read gloats how, \u201cyou\u2019ll crawl out of this class!\u201d, or, \u201cthis class will kick your butt!\u201d. These are appealing notions because we feel when we are trashed after a workout, or so sore the next day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy Your Workouts Shouldn\u2019t Leave You Trashed - Body Building and Fitness News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realmuscleforum.com\/content\/workouts-shouldnt-leave-trashed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Your Workouts Shouldn\u2019t Leave You Trashed - Body Building and Fitness News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love a tough workout. 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