Arugggghhhhhhh

[CrystalChick]

How long would you say did it take you ladies to obtain a good understanding of your training? (ie which excercise works what body part) dieting etc.
My thinking is your body is a culmination of years of learning but is there a point when you can just make adjustments since you know your body and the excercises you respond well to.
Is there a way based on body type a person should be excersing like a mesomorph should do this form of weight lifting to obtain this result. I know it's not that cut and dry buuuut I hope you all understand my point.
I feel lost all the time grasping for straws so to speak....



Thanks CC

 

[MS]

I suspect that by the time you have a good idea of your training, diet etc.... that it's prolly time to change it

I think the only 'secret' or 'universal truth' is that you need to do everything with intensity and focus, even if it's a high rep pump class or a weekend hike. From this type of intensity/focus will come a quicker understanding of your body and it's response. I also find disciplines such as yoga/tai chi/martial arts helps to develop body self awareness more quickly than just moving the weights up and down.

 

[SteelWeaver]

The more I read, think about and apply info that I find around these boards, or from people here, or from various other sources, the more aware I become of how different things affect my body. I think I've become more aware of how training and nutrition affect my system as a whole in the last 6-8 months than the 1.5 years of training and struggling before that. Having an idea of what such and such a feeling could be, or what it's related to, really helps to pinpoint what's going on for me.

NOTHING in my life has made me more aware of my body than the current diet I'm on. Stuff that you usually don't really notice much when your belly is full, suddenly comes to the forefront of your consciousness when on a diet. For example, I never knew the INCREDIBLE effect that carbs have on strength and energy until I did a carb up on Friday, then went to train legs. In-fucking-credible! I was like a machine in there - large jumps in weight lifted, endurance through the roof.

But like MS said, probably once you figure something out it's time to change it.

As for learning all the exercises, what they work, what they work best: a training journal, where you actually write down every exercise by it's name, and refer to it by that name when speaking to people, is a great help. But it's an ongoing learning process. Someone asked this same type of question on the training board, and guys who've been training for, like, 10 years or more said they are still learning. And that's GOOD. If we didn't keep learning, we'd have no need to continue.

Just keep reading, keep trying stuff, and write it all down - that way you can refer back, and the learning process will be more methodical.

 

[sashakitty00]

some people say about people "the day you stop learning is the day you die." this may hold true for fitness to. 50yrs ago ( even 10yrs) what was thought of as weight lifting, productive, and healthy has changed. as science and medicine advance so do we.. new things are revealed all the time about what is "good" and "bad" for us.. also i think as our bodies advance and adapt that we will need to develop new ways to stress or push us past the point that we have reached/ adapted to already physically..

sasha