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DOUGH

I have been laid off from the gym; partly because of my delicate condition and also because it is due. I try to take a week off every 10-12 weeks. Then I ramp up again. That way, I am able to back off the weights a bit after the break and max the 'training effect' of the same weight range. I do not have to keep adding weights forever to get a pump. There are limits afterall. I am not interested in power lifting and at some point the ligaments won't take the strain of addition.

Anyway, I have been off now for about ten days; one and a half training cycles. I am beginning to feel it; physically and mentally. The physical part is simple. I have gained an average pound and lost an inch off my chest. That extra weight went somewhere and it ain't lean muscle mass. Did I tell you I weighed and measured once a week?

The mental part is not the lack of the famed endorphin rush. It is more the onset of a negative self image that includes a belief that my clothes have tightened, my breath is shorter, and, in general, that I am going to hell. It is time to return to the gym.

I am kinda recovered and I will take it easy. I will set the weights back and do less effort to stop a set. I will moderate. And so on. Time to get off my ass. Ooooops.