will you guys cover injury recovery and the mentality to quick recovery and advice how to find physical limit without injury okay so for this one well first of all train hard but always train smart you know don’t do things that are going to hurt you and this is a balance just like everything else you have to push yourself hard enough that you get stronger but at the same time you can’t push yourself so hard that you get injured so i think that’s one of the keys another key is making sure you take adequate rest which of course i’m usually guilty of not doing that being said when you see me training every day i’m not you know i’m not going 110 every day there are some days where i roll into the gym and i say yeah okay this is not a this is not a day to push myself i’m injury prone today you know and so i i will taper my workout and i’ll usually do some other kind of intensity but let’s say i’m not going to lift heavy weights or i’m not going to sprint because i’m feeling tight and i don’t want to pull muscle so you just you got to listen to what your body’s saying another thing that i think is important about it is you know we talked about on the last podcast is you know changing your goals and constantly chasing after different goals you know you’re going for a a deadlift and then you’re going for a mile time run and then you’re going for a number of pull-ups and you’re you’re constantly kind of changing those and i think that is a good way to avoid injury because you’re not just hammering the same thing over and over and over again which i think leads to injury now that being said you don’t ever want to just completely stop you know elements of your workout you know you want to keep that’s why it’s good to not go in these extreme directions and i’ll tell you one what i think is the most important thing for me for being relatively injury-free and i’m about to list all my injuries on the next question but relatively injury-free is that i always work out i always work out and i think that when people i think when people take extended periods of time off and by that i think i mean you know you’re starting to get into like two weeks three weeks maybe a month of not doing anything i think when people come back from those is when they get injured is when they get hurt because their body’s just it’s still strong it still thinks it can do what it did three weeks ago but it can’t it’s not conditioned for it and that’s when that’s when you get hurt uh another good piece i think for recovery and is the is a mobility wad the kelly k-star you know go to mobilitywad com and just look at that look at what he’s doing look what he’s putting out he’s got some great stuff to heal yourself and and square away your injuries i think stretching i think stretching is important but i think people take it to an excess and i think when you do too much of it i think it’s i think it’s causes problems um i know so i know some some guys that have done extreme yoga and i think extreme yoga is you know once you’re once you go beyond what is normal or a little beyond normal you start to injure yourself and i think that’s not good i think it leads to you know joint laxity where your your your joints can actually move too much and there’s not enough holding them in place so they’re stability right right and so i think just listen to your body and i think that the next part of this question will answer in the next question just to kind of add to that nutrition as well like eating enough so a lot of people especially if they’re trying to cut up or or drop some weight and you know if you’re training for something you got to make weight that’s you know that’s going to be a little bit more specific strategy but a lot of times people will starve themselves yeah i’m always telling people like when they’re feeling negative or they’re feeling like they’re injury-prone i’m always telling people they’re probably lacking fats they’re probably lacking good fats you know yeah so i agree with you diet is extremely important yeah and what like when you when you work on this what i learned early on and on understanding the importance of this i think really really helped is if you eat right after you work out don’t don’t think that you’re going to eat a meal and that’s going to fuel your workout because like it takes a while for the the calories to go into your system the fuel workout it’s not going to do it in like an hour so don’t eat so go work out and then eat after so that those calories and in those nutrients will help your body recover and within that hour that’s when your body wants to recover and wants those nutrients yes so doing that if you starve yourself or don’t eat or eat very little your your muscles aren’t going to be recovered your tendons are going to be a little bit more weak even when you do recover it didn’t take in those nutrients yeah so you will be way more prone i probably i probably need to do a better job of that as you well i people always ask me and i i get done working out you know at like five or six well maybe six o’clock in the morning i’m done working out and i usually don’t i usually don’t eat until nine or ten you know so i probably need to do a better job of that i’ll take echo charles’s advice on that one yeah that’s um it’s funny but i have an open mind so it’s cool i can do that yeah good in the bodybuilding bodybuilding world that’s like a no-brainer called the anabolic window and it’s like you you can see little jokes on it where it’s like gotta jump through that oh he missed his anabolic window and it shows a picture of like a guy holding a guy dying or something yeah it’s like it’s a real important thing and it helps so much we’ll give it a shot right on
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