27 Mar Brian Carroll: The Pendulum has swung
[wa-wps]I have not trained or eaten right since the meet and I don’t care.
I have been so hyper focused on everything for the last 6 months that I don’t even care.
I haven’t trained once. I have done minimal core work. I have walked 2x and once was today.
I haven’t went to the gym but 2x.
But then starts the problems, issues and punishment when you eat like complete crap for 3 weeks straight. Some side effects are not really worth it. Some, I won’t go into – just google fissure. That’s all I have to say.
I’m going to run Keto again for a month to two months. Yes, I know I need to give it months and months for the full benefit(s) but the one or two benefits I’m interested in: feeling better and not being dead from overeating.
This will start as soon as I’m ready, and I’m not quite ready yet.
I have been pouring my time into resting – note: when you get older in both age and lifting age, you take much longer to recover from the hell you put your body through. I’d say for me, a big cut and meet that is a 7.5/10 as far as how much the ‘day’ pushed me mentally, physically and emotionally: 2 weeks for me. I am tired, mentally and physically spent from travel and the highs and lows and in some ways it’s decompressing and breathing!
I have also been writing a lot. The first pass of the McGill/Carroll book is done. It’s big and it’s full of great content. I’m going to be focusing on this and 10/20/Life for powerbuilding over the next while.
I have not missed training any bit. Not a blip on the radar. I literally went 14 years without missing more than a day for usually pretty good reason. I haven’t ever taken a week off while in town and not just went.
Even during my back rehab where I didn’t lift for a long time, I still came every week 2-3x a week. It’s just what I did, no questions asked, I was coming.
It’s a must needed hiatus from the norm and I know in time I will be chomping at the bit to train and train heavy.
I do miss my friends, which I still see but in time I’ll want to be back – I miss the interaction. I just don’t have any desire to push right now and really needed time away from it.
I don’t know when I’ll actually get under a bar again, but I’ll for sure do some carries and such over the next few weeks when I feel the desire to. Until then, just McGill core work, walking and getting my ass in order.
Brian Carroll
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