STARTING A NEW fitness regime is an exciting time. The promise of the body you’ve always wanted is a pretty cool incentive.
You devise a plan with the help of a fitness instructor and begin to dream of the body you’ll have in 10 weeks.
The plan works to perfection for the opening sessions and you can already notice a change after three weeks.
But slowly, the motivation dips, the appetite for hurting yourself declines and bad habits begin to creep into your game.
You’re on a slippery slope back to where you started if you don’t arrest the slide, a slide that can often be accelerated by that word we all despise…routine
Chances are you know the answers already…but we’re here to remind you of the warning signs of this routine…
1) You’re not excited about your workout
You know that feeling when you hit the gym and you’re 100% motivated to smash yourself because you know the session will make you better? Well, that’s not there anymore.
There’s no spark to your training and you find yourself ambling through the session, at the same pace, listening to the same songs and doing the same exercises.
Going to the gym should be fun and something to look forward to. It should be mentally stimulating and physically rewarding.
Exercise shouldn’t be a chore that you dread, but something that makes you feel good about yourself.
2) You’re not hurting afterwards
You know that feeling you had when you first started doing that killer arms workout?
The feeling where you struggled to take your t-shirt off afterwards?
You know that feeling where your legs literally shake from the exertion of all those dead lifts or your core is in agony from the pounding it took during those 10 sets of leg raises?
You’re coming out of the gym now fresher than you went in. Not good.
You know it’s time to lift more and lift faster. And take less rest in between those sets.
3) You’re getting weaker
Maybe you’re training too much and adopting a ‘more is better’ approach?
Never is this okay, and instead of getting stronger, you’re getting weaker.
If you don’t give your body ample recovery time, you’ll progressively become more and more fatigued and this can lead to sickness or worse, injury.
If you have been overtraining, your first priority should be rest.
Take note of what you lifted on each day and compare it over time. Are you improving or not?
We suggest a rest week once a month where you lift the same weight – but half the number of sets/reps.
On form lar has no business starting. Maybe there is a big game in him yet this year
Yeah but he will take watching all the same.
Yearra the way he is playing you could watch him handy from the upper davin
Oh I can’t fookin wait!
No Mickey Cahill! I’d rate him one of the best hurlers going. Never seen him play a bad game and always picks up the opposition’s top inside forward.
O’Shea must have serious faith in these boys.
My biggest worry is if someone of the likes of bonnar or Callanan get injured or aren’t performing we don’t have the strength in depth to replace them. Backs are okay but kk have much more strength in depth all over the pitch. It’s an 18 man game now
Doubt it makes a difference what Team he picks..
Think people are a bit misguided on Tipp’s strength in depth, we have Jason Forde, Niall O’Meara and Dinny Maher to spring of the bench if needed. Another with potential is Colin O’Riordan or Shane Bourke who had a good league campaign. On form Lar and Noel McGrath probably shouldn’t be selected but we don’t see every training. I have been their biggest critic but can only hope there’s a big game in both on Sunday.. Its going to a be cracking game on Sunday all the same… so many questions, so many moving parts..
Just what I wanted to hear, as long as Lar Corbett plays, we’ll be playing 14 men :)
Tell that to Noel Hickey! Hel be quick to tell you what Lar can do!
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There won’t be much sign of you Gavin on this site Sunday night I can tell ya after that comment..