Me learning not to change programs
DoctorKyrina
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I've been doing Starting Strength for a few weeks now and I've really gotten into it. I wasn't really always doing it consistantly at first, and my gains weren't always very stable at first, but my experiences taught me a few key things that it (and New Rules of Lifting for Women) blatantly said, but that I didn't actually get until I noticed it affected me.
Lesson 1: I need to eat enough.
I originally started with the standard MFP calorie thing for losing 1lb a week and didn't really care too much about my protein. Sometimes I'd have good days of working out, and other times I'd end up needing to do less weight than the week before (or worse: I had a few times I didn't have the energy to finish sets). This got better when I moved my calories up and ate more protein.
Lesson 2: Don't add extra exercises.
I get impatient and assume I could do both bench presses and shoulder presses in one day. My numbers end up really bad, and I wondered why my performance was bad. The first time I did it, I ended up blaming diet. And then it happened today. And so I learned.
I know it's silly. These books are already set in a specific way, but I'm a terrible know-it-all sometimes and need to be reminded that I shouldn't mess with things. It's late and this is disjointed, but I found it useful when I learned these blatantly obvious things. And I'll do really well on Wednesday.
Lesson 1: I need to eat enough.
I originally started with the standard MFP calorie thing for losing 1lb a week and didn't really care too much about my protein. Sometimes I'd have good days of working out, and other times I'd end up needing to do less weight than the week before (or worse: I had a few times I didn't have the energy to finish sets). This got better when I moved my calories up and ate more protein.
Lesson 2: Don't add extra exercises.
I get impatient and assume I could do both bench presses and shoulder presses in one day. My numbers end up really bad, and I wondered why my performance was bad. The first time I did it, I ended up blaming diet. And then it happened today. And so I learned.
I know it's silly. These books are already set in a specific way, but I'm a terrible know-it-all sometimes and need to be reminded that I shouldn't mess with things. It's late and this is disjointed, but I found it useful when I learned these blatantly obvious things. And I'll do really well on Wednesday.
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Excellent points. You wouldn't have know these things without learning the hard way, so they are valuable lessons!!
I've learned those very lessons myself.0
