Getting back into your gym routine after a minor break
Posted on November 8, 2015
You will eventually find yourself in a situation where your ordinary gym routine has been interrupted for whatever reason, maybe you have been temporarily struck down by Nurgle (that is Warhammer speech for sick), or you have been away for a holiday etc. No matter the reason for your temporary absence from the blessed Temple of Iron getting back into your schedule does not have to be that hard, even though you will feel weak and out of sync with your body!
I would not recommend that you go straight back into your schedule where you left off. The reason for this is simple, as stated above chances are quite high that you will feel weak, and if you feel weak your body will not be ready to perform at the very best of its abilities, which will be required if you follow a well formulated training schedule.
What you can do instead is that you do a full body lighter session using high repetitions. To take myself and today’s session as an example (following not lifting for five days) I did three exercises on a light weight; benchpress, sealrows and squats (that is an upperbody pushing movement, a pulling movement and then finally a leg movement). This served as a warm-up of sorts for the coming week. A way to ease into the heavy lifting again!
Sunday Summary. Page Update. T-Shirt Update. Spotify
Posted on November 7, 2015
I have decided to re-instate the Sunday Summary, alas the day of upload may vary, each weekly summary will be available under the Articles page. I have updated it in order to step up my game overall. And most importantly in order to host my webshop (in anticipation of the coming t-shirts).
Here is a preview of them. I aim at opening the webshop within a week!
These are the first designs, and I am very happy with them; clean and stylish! A good fit as well!
Also, since I get the question every once in a while, here is the link to my Spotify list!
Lastly, an update on my training and nutrition is appropriate, seeing as the Sunday Summary is the best way to give updates regarding this issues. It is very easy for Facebook and Instagram posts to be lost in the metaphysical world of social media!
My training at the moment consists of equal parts MMA and strength training, the MMA sessions are 4 times a week (between 2-2,5 hours) with a lot of focus on the ground game. The lifting is 4-5 times a week, how this adds up is simple: I add some exercises of lifting prior to MMA. Usually these exercises consist of either deadlifts (if the MMA session is more technical) or sealrows (if the MMA session is more intense). On the days where I only lift I keep the full focus on the basic compound movements.
And with those words I encourage you to visit this rather hilarious Tumblr page http://patri-archie-comics.tumblr.com/ (thank you to Michael for posting it on my Facebook!)
The Golden One 
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