Endurance training is great fun...

Morning mutants, norms and other species visiting this page. I hope that you are all having a great existence in whatever timezone or dimension you are all visiting from.

Now recently, I have started going back to doing 5 days a week workouts. It has been a while, but I think I am getting enough of a result that I will be keeping this up for a little bit longer. I have to say, I think the greatest benefit I have experienced from it, will definitely have to be the increased energy from getting a fantastic nights sleep. The muscular increase, bone regeneration, the strength increases and other wonders it can do for the human body are great, but, without a good sleep, your body won't absorb the benefits that it should.

The other thing I really enjoy is the numbers game. Seeing how many reps I can increase upon my previous workout. Around 3 weeks ago, I started at about 450-500 for an upper body workout. These are done in either sets of 10,20,30 depending on the exercises that I am performing. Yesterday, I maxed out at 820, which was quite a struggle towards the end. One of the major benefits I have seen from this, is that on the days where I am not in the gym, I am finding that I am able to do whatever it is I am doing for a longer amount of time. Be it walking around the museum without taking a sit down break in a 5 hour period, or keeping a better maintained focus on my course work.

Another thing I have noticed, is that my body has responded better to this type of workout than it did with strength workout (low reps higher weights). I have seen a better increase in muscle growth, better strength gains, and just as importantly, a bit better of a cardio increase. Different people respond differently to exercise, mainly due to a genetic disposition to certain muscle types. Some people can do the strength workouts, and look like a shaved bear sitting in the gym, whereas others respond to endurance. Now, due to people not having a good understanding of their bodies, they will generally do what the big guys are doing and get no result in the gym whatsoever.

So next time you are down in the gym, give each type of exercise a try for a few weeks, and see which one you get the better result from, and use that as your predominant workout. Still, doing the other workout will provide benefit to you, but if your body is not responding, change it up a bit. Now remember, you won't create NEW muscle in the gym, you will just be enhancing the muscle you already have. This was one of the more interesting facts that I have learned in the course, just on the basis of how many people think that these supplements on the market can help them "create" new muscle.

All the best my fitness and non fitness buffs, Jim, the Supermutant.