Since forever, I have taken a full week’s rest from training every 8-12 weeks or thereabouts.
This approach has worked very well, not only allowing for deeper recovery but also maintaining my enthusiasm for training. (Anyone who has been training consistently for more than five minutes will get what I mean when I say it has been over a decade since I was last “excited” by lifting and whatnot.)
Yet this week I find myself in the curious position of being due a rest week but not wanting to take one.
Why?
Not sure, actually.
I certainly feel crispy in the physical sense, but I’m quite keen on the idea of doing something of substance training-wise.
So something of substance is what I am doing.
Obviously it would be dumb to continue with my usual regime (doubly so as it is exceptionally demanding of late for various reasons). Hence, I have decided to make use of the pullup bars in the local park that I have known about for five years yet hitherto neglected to take advantage of because I am a Silly Salmon.
Specifically, I am doing thusly, daily:
* Warm up
* Run the quarter mile to the park
* 100-150 squats
* 50-100 pushups
* 25-50 pullups
* Run the quarter mile home
* Cool down
I’m probably going to continue with this moving forward (i.e. over and above my usual schedule) first thing in the morning in the time I’d ordinarily devote to my daily walk (I’ll do the walks later in the day as I’ve freed up literally hours of time since canning social media and reducing my phone use generally).
Anyway, I’ve been racking my brain for a way to segue this little teaching into the book I want to promote today.
The best I’ve come up with is that what I’ve just described is the product of a lot of thinking, and thinking – or rather, faulty thinking – is the subject of my inexpensive work:
“ButterBrain: Grass-fed observations explaining why you’re struggling to get (and keep) results from your hard work in the gym”
It is available from Amazon for £3.50 (for the eBook) or £11 (for the paperback).
However.
It has no reviews whatsoever because my list is very small, I’ve not promoted it much, and I’d rather eat dirt than cheat my way onto the bestseller list as happens often in my line of work.
So if you’re worried about purchasing a book that might be a bit naff, I recommend not buying it.
Otherwise, you can get it from Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ButterBrain-Grass-fed-observations-explaining-struggling/dp/B0DQ4SRSN4
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman