Best training for dead legs?

[SBleeder]

I've got to train hard tomorrow, but my legs are absolutely shot from too much roadwork.


Don't tell me to take a day off; I train seven days a week and always will.

Should I practice combinations without a lot of footwork? Lots of speed bag?

[Ray Corso]

Swim!!! ............and the body needs to rest, ALL athletes need to rest and eat and sleep well! When I trained Sunday would be my light day and Monday was just the road! All the other days I worked!
When I trained fighters it made no difference their age or ability one full day out of the gym is a MUST! Ray.

[Rockin']

Swim!!! ............and the body needs to rest, ALL athletes need to rest and eat and sleep well! When I trained Sunday would be my light day and Monday was just the road! All the other days I worked!
When I trained fighters it made no difference their age or ability one full day out of the gym is a MUST! Ray.

Ray knows it, you must give your muscles proper time to rest and rebuild. 7 days a week is over-kill...........Rockin'

[saintpat]

That's like posting:

I'm fat. I'm gaining weight and it's all flab.

What should I do?

And DON'T tell me to diet and exercise. I eat like a pig and sit on my fanny all day EVERY day.

If you don't want to rest muscles that are overworked, don't worry. You'll end up with an injury and you won't have any choice.

[Alx.]

Try ice and lay in bed, other than that what the others posters have mentioned; rest

[TheNegation]

At 32 years old, with beat up legs from roadwork, you need to rest. Legs are a big muscle group and they need more time to recover compared to other body parts

You aren't 20 years old anymore. There is nothing gained by training 7 days a week, there has to be a period of recovery after consistent breakdown.

At this point training constantly without adequate rest is doing nothing but setting you back. Unless you're using AAS. Even then you still need rest. The Bulgarian Olympian Lifters who were pumped full of steroids didn't even train 7 days a week.

It's like picking at a scab. It won't heal properly but when it finally does which could take a considerable amount of time, you'll have a scar. If you keep training with shot legs....beyond your bodies limits without adequate rest, you're probably going to end up with shot legs for life.

[Prince Mongo]

I've got to train hard tomorrow, but my legs are absolutely shot from too much roadwork.


Don't tell me to take a day off; I train seven days a week and always will.

Should I practice combinations without a lot of footwork? Lots of speed bag?

Rest is a huge component of training. If you don't have adequate rest you don't recover and will under perform in your next training session and dilute your efforts. What you are doing is called over training. You can train hard or long but not both so the 7 day a week gig you are doing is not training hard but long. If your legs are dead ,rest until they recover then train hard.

[SBleeder]

Ray knows it, you must give your muscles proper time to rest and rebuild. 7 days a week is over-kill...........Rockin'

I know this is good advice. I just hate feeling old at age 32.

You know what else really rubs my rhubarb? Getting passed by old men while doing roadwork.

The other day, I'm out for my run, and this middle-aged gentleman cruises by me.

Now, granted, he probably didn't weight more than 150, and the "13.1" on the back of his t-shirt suggested that he was a serious runner, but still...

[Danny Gunz]

[New England]

take a day off, dude.

it doesn't matter what you think or how you feel mentally about the aging process. you need to rest. you will perform better with rest. you will become better conditioned with rest. you can work harder with rest. more rest = more and better work.

conditioning is the process by which the body is broken down and rebuilt stronger to adapt to the demand. you're doing too much breaking down, and not enough rebuilding.

you need to take a long rest for starters. at least a week. then take one or two days off a week, every week. you are a 32 year old man, not a teenager. you need to take better care of yourself at this age, and that means rest.