Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I am recording solo today because Andy and I

seems to be really busy in lockdown so we can't coordinate. But I do have many a great question to

answer so weirdly not got them in front of me, which would be useful.

And I have them.

Okay, first question.

Should we all be in bits, i.e. sweating slash near failure after workouts?

My thought is no, not every time at least,

but I was wondering what your opinion is and how we should balance our training throughout the week with this in mind. Okay, so generally I would say I do want you to give it your all in training,

but some of the workouts are going to challenge you in slightly different ways.

So for example, I don't expect you to be, what was the, be in quotes, in bits, i.e. sweating or near failure

after potentially a more core dominant workout. But I might

expect you to be like that after maybe the 100 rep workout or something similar. So there are

slight differences between the workouts and you're right. Not every workout would have you sort of

on the floor, can't do any more type scenario. And the other aspect is that you can only adapt to what you can recover from.

So there's no point pushing it and giving all your effort every time if you can't then

recover and adapt from that.

That's why we have rest days.

That's why we prioritise sleep and nutrition and recovery so that the training that we do

do do, has the maximal benefit and the most opportunity to adapt from that so that the next time

your body is challenged, the next time you do an exercise session, it will be better equipped

to deal with that stress on the body.

And that is generally how you build fitness.

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