It’s About More Than Just Resting and Recuperating In my last essay on “Plateau Busters,” I mentioned briefly the importance of proper recovery when your progress has stalled. But recovery is important all the time. If you do it “right,” then you won’t have too much stalled progress in the first place. Part of the issue with recovery methods, at least in the West, is that too much emphasis on training is placed around volume, intensity, and “rest and recuperation.” The prevailing understanding for most lifters—and I don’t want to generalize, but I believe this to be true—is that recovery will take care of itself if you train hard and then give your body plenty of time to “rest and grow.” While that has some truth to it, I won’t deny, it’s not the whole picture. Or, at least, it shouldn’t be. I wish lifters would think more along the lines of proper programming . ...
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