I need a break!

I feel soo tired! I feel like someone had just sucked out all the energy from me.  I guess I have started to feel all this weeks hard training now. Recovering from all that cardio and weight training can sometimes be a bit tricky being on diet. Just have to remind myself what Chris Aceto said in a chapter in one of his great books- "The Exhauston Stage is the stage all bodybuilders want to avoid. It is the body's inability to cope with the stressor. It is where the resistance stage is omitted and muscle growth becomes an impossibility. Too much stress causes the body to fail in the resistance stage...   It is where the body becomes exhausted, unable to gather the strength to recover and rebuild from the stress of too much training; be it too many workouts each week or too many total sets for each bodypart. Instead of growing, the body, too tired and unable to recover, fails to grow and may even begin to lose muscle...      Either injuries will occur or more common, he/she will become too sore or too tired. This extreme soreness will drain energy and recovery from every othe body part, leaving his/hers ability to recover for workouts in the immediate future severly compromised."

 And a couple of pages later: "While caffeine and stimulant herbs like Ma Huang on occasion are a pre-workout aid to enhance muscle contraction and the ability to concentrate, stay away from these products when you feel overly tired. Using stimulants when you are just too tired will only mask and temporarily disguise the signs of overtraining.."

Sounds familiar anyone:)?

So I guess the best thing to do now is to go with the Plan A; plenty of sleep, for  at least the next 10 hours. A great way to spend the rest of the friday evening, after first having spent the afternoon training delts and chest at my gym.

Good night all, sleep tight! Natti natti!

Last April in Iceland (Grand Prix), behind the scene with Finnish bodybuilder Jari Stingl.