I had been noticing lately that my shoulders had been getting a bit sore. I had been working out at the gym 4 times a week and reasonably intensely. My goal at the gym is not to be muscle bound BUT to have my muscles working for me as part of increasing my metabolic rate. Muscle burns energy that if it wasn’t there would be stored as fat. An over simplification perhaps, but that’s generally how it works.
Back to the shoulders anyway.
I have cut back on my workouts, time wise, and going to aim for 3 times per week.
The shoulder thing was also due to me doing some exercises wrongly. Well not really, I was doing them how I have seen them done for 20 plus years…………….but yes wrongly because as we understand more about our bodies, muscles and training, the way we do exercises is changing. I was over extending my shoulder and benefit could be gained from the exercise with 3/4 of the movement.
Sometimes we forget that knowledge is changing across so many areas and disciplines, and we keep on doing the same old same old.
I owe a lot of thanks to my gym instructors and Donelle my trainer for helping me see this. There is also a bit of me in there. I realised I was not enjoying going to the gym and it was becoming a drag after starting out as a joy…………my goals were threatened by this change. So I asked for help and initiated some changes. You have to listen to your body and hold on to your goals and be willing to change. I am glad I did. My muscle mas is up one percent, and its good muscle, so the software says, which means its being feed good protein. Keep at it guys.
