A Workout When You Just Aren't Feelin a Workout

So yesterday I have to admit I was dragging my ass. I mean, the past month has been busy, and I mean BUSY, which has left me without a day off in about a month. Seriously, every day I’ve had something big going on where I was needed somewhere, in somewhat of a coherent mental state, for at least the better part of six hours, for about 4-5 weeks. This was both an error of judgement on my part for scheduling, and a necessity of a pre-vacation.

That being the case, a heavy involvement workout was just not gonna happen yesterday, but I knew that with just 9 days (!!!!) left before the big hitch day, I had to do something. I mean, the sexy just won’t bring itself now, will it? So you know what I did for a workout yesterday?

Arms.

That’s right. Arms. Just arms. Good ol bi’s and tri’s.

While I’m a big fan of deadlifting and front squatting and chin-uppery, some days they just aren’t in the cards. That being the case, working something is pretty much ALWAYS better than working nothing. My rationale for it was that training biceps will give me a greater amount of strength and power through the elbow, which will help out when it comes to deadlifts, and the tricep training will help boost my bench. That sounds about right, doesn’t it? Hell, I could justify why eating Dunkin Donuts for a week would be a good idea, but that doesn’t make it so.

However, training biceps and triceps had a great effect on getting me away from the computer for a half hour, lifting something, breaking a mild sweat, and quite possibly making me unable to shampoo or wipe myself tomorrow from the muscle soreness, so that’s always a good thing.

I’m sure you’re wondering what the point is to all this self-justification rambling. Well, you’re not the only one I’m sure. Be that as it may, the major point to it is that no matter how you feel, there is always some way you can make physical progress towards a goal, be it through a max weight workout or a dumpy accessory workout to put on a gun show. There’s only certain instances where passive recovery could be considered a good option (acute injury, overtraining, car accident), but it rarely produces any favorable benefits to the individual. Now an active recovery workout, which can include such fun things as foam rolling, stretching, corrective exercises, and non-major muscle group training can definitely have a place in the cobble-stone pathway leading to Awesomeville.

Funny thing about that Awessomeville: Urban Dictionary defines it as such:

The destination when a guy bangs a girl in his RV all night, keeping everyone else in the area awake.

Jeff: I didn’t sleep at all last night.
Aaron: That’s cause I took that bitch to Awesomeville.