During Phase 1 I couldn't wait for recovery week. I was forward to "taking a break" and letting the sore muscles heal up. This go around I'm just bored.
Over time I've not only gotten accustomed to the soreness (nothing ever came close the pain of weak one) I've come to appreciate it. When I feel a little pain it reminds that the work is actually doing something. Recovery week is just tiring. Six consecutive non-resistance workouts and no AbRipper X. On top of that recovery week is the only time you have a duplicate workout and this time it's Yoga. Wonderful.
I realize that it's an important part of the process but that doesn't make it any more interesting. At this point I'm a lot more enthusiatic about the resistance workouts. With resistance you can see your improvement on paper. You know what you lifted, how many times, how many push-ups, whatever. You compare those to last weeks numbers and voila, instant gratification.
The cardio stuff is solid, but there's no instant gratification. The only thing you can hope to do is feel at least as wiped out as you did last week. If you don't, you didn't work hard enough.
Time to suck it up and keep pushing. Next week starts Phase 3 and the home stretch.
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Damn... who's the hot dude on the right? Oh yeah, that's me.
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