Quote Originally Posted by Cowbell View Post
Have you ever taken 3 weeks off from working out. Let me tell you, muscle atrophy is very very quick. For every day you don't continue working out, you lose 2 days of training. And it hurts. Let me tell you from experience.
Gonna have to disagree, especially at that age. The atrophy at 18-23 is much slower than at 30-40. I?m 36 and can go months without working out. I do not do heavy bulk lifting any longer. I?ll go back to the gym and do about 90-95% my normal weight workout and barely get a tinge of soreness. That?s just to get back into the swing. Can get back up to regular workout weight writhing a week or two. Your body gets into a setting until you change it. Can take 6-12 months of doing or not doing something to change your internal settings.

If I go in there and do something that I have not been doing before and do not know any limits for my body, I am as sore as hell and struggle to move the next day. That is without anything close to the nutrition regiment the college athletes have these days.

Side note. If anyone does a workout, where they know soreness is in their future, pop some vitamin E before bed and drink plenty of water. It will dramatically help reduce the lactic acid over night as your body repairs. Any antioxidant type vitamin will help, I?ve just found vitamin E to be beneficial.

I think the point to his entire post is that they players are saying the previous off season workouts were never this tough. That is the key takeaway, most are missing here.