In a way, our bodies aren't too happy about our training. We have only so many resources available for repairing ourselves, not to mention the incredible luxury of GROWING! Growing is not a given thing - it's something you FORCE your body to do in order to handle a certain kind of stress put upon it, namely lifting weights, and like I said, it's a luxury since it makes your body "bigger than necessary" and therefore consumes more energy than you should elsewise. Every time you've worked out, you've torn down a lot of tissue that has to be repaired, you've burned valuable energy and you've brought the entire immune system to its knees (remember, weight training is a kind of STRESS on the body). And on top of all this, we not only expect our bodies to recuperate but to GROW!
Looking at the workout in itself, it's a very negative thing for your physique. All the gains come days, sometimes up to a WEEK afterwards, and until that point the body has been perfectly busy just repairing all the damage you caused during the workout! So what happens if you decide that your biceps is lagging, and start training it TWICE as often as triceps in the hope of making it grow faster? Right - you're only making the biceps lag even more behind, as it's doomed to not even get back to square one again, while the Triceps grow - given time to rest so it gets to square one and beyond after every workout!
Simple logic overthrows the good intentions pretty much right away, I think. So what about the workout itself? What was I talking about at the beginning of the article, comparing Natural and druggie-programs? What do I mean by training HARD? The answer lies in the number of sets and the effort you put into them.
