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Before getting into more You can also think about the
explanations, we should “ tendons and connective
comment on what we mean tissues, which are the ones
by “recovery” when talking that are usually noticeable due
about weight training/fitness/ recovery from a to discomfort when the
bodybuilding. Many people are training frequency is too high.
wrong when they say that workout occurs when After all, you don’t realize that
recovery from a workout you are not gaining muscle
occurs when you regain the you regain the same before several weeks or even a
same amount of muscle amount of muscle month has passed.
glycogen (glucose plus stored Why is it wrong to believe
water that serves as energy to glycogen.
perform efforts, here referring this? Because it turns out that
the adaptation that interests
to weight training/fitness/
bodybuilding) you had before us the most, as bodybuilders,
is increasing muscle mass, and
training in each large muscle
of the body. This process of not so much the energy part
(glycogen). And there is no
recovery of the glycogen load
is possible to measure through and, wrongly, some interpret method, unfortunately, that
tells you that the muscle
procedures where the that recovery happens when
glycogen concentration in the level of glycogen that growth potential of a given
muscle is completed in a given
each muscle is biopsied. If we existed before training is
train, then there will be a recovered. If you allow me, I number of hours/days after
training. And this is where
decrease (among other things) will let it slip that this type of
in the level of stored glycogen recovery should occur in all everything becomes clear.
tissues damaged during
training, not only in the one
that is most nourished by the
arrival of blood in abundance.
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