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!@#$%! · 11.05.2013, 10:34 AM

one thing to remember is that you need time to recover, and that muscles will develop much faster than tendons and connective tissue when you're an adult.

therefore go slow and be very patient so that your muscles don't overstrain or *aghhh* tear a tendon. so start walking before running, but at first don't even walk every day so all that connective tissue in the feet etc. has time to recover.

people who restart exercising get injured too often and that's why they abandon it soon after. the trick is to do it like a very slow cooking, like a winter stew. lots of patience and time to rest in between, let the muscles develop, let the connective tissue catch up with the muscle, and you'll go on forever.

cross-training helps with this if you're trying to establish a daily workout schedule. e.g. you could combine w/ pilates for core development and an upper body workout, so e.g. 1 day walk/run, 1 day core, 1 day arms/back/chest, repeat the cycle to allow a 2-day rest period for each muscle group, plus one day you stay in bed eating pastries and watching james franco movies to complete the week.

11.05.2013, 10:34 AM	#9
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	one thing to remember is that you need time to recover, and that muscles will develop much faster than tendons and connective tissue when you're an adult. therefore go slow and be very patient so that your muscles don't overstrain or aghhh tear a tendon. so start walking before running, but at first don't even walk every day so all that connective tissue in the feet etc. has time to recover. people who restart exercising get injured too often and that's why they abandon it soon after. the trick is to do it like a very slow cooking, like a winter stew. lots of patience and time to rest in between, let the muscles develop, let the connective tissue catch up with the muscle, and you'll go on forever. cross-training helps with this if you're trying to establish a daily workout schedule. e.g. you could combine w/ pilates for core development and an upper body workout, so e.g. 1 day walk/run, 1 day core, 1 day arms/back/chest, repeat the cycle to allow a 2-day rest period for each muscle group, plus one day you stay in bed eating pastries and watching james franco movies to complete the week.
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