Another.

...year at uni. The time where we all miss uni coz the holidays have been draggin' on for a lil too long with nothing to do (for those like me with not much going on, that is.) and then the day before uni, im pretty much ready to say, aight. another few weeks of holidays wouldnt hurt right? But it's all over, another set of holidays just flown by and we bout to hit the year of uni.

Preparation was the pre-semester 1 week of holidays where you set ur weight up and you get ready to push n pull. Now tomolo for me would be the concentric phase of the exercise. gotta push it till the peak. As for the isometric (hold/pause, whatever you may like to call it) and the eccentric phase, completely out of my mind at this point in time. Real different right? coz when you're pushing weights, you kinda think bout (sometimes even disregard) the down phase of it coz its gon be easy and it'll be like it's not even there.

But i've found that uni, and any aspect of life you're going to encounter will be very much the same as a repetition of an exercise. Now. Some of you might be thinking, but hey, towards the end of uni we have to work our arses off to prepare for finals. And you're right. Just that the structure of the 'exercise' you have in mind is different.

Confused? It's simple. Here's the explanation. The eccentric phase (down phase) of an exercise has been PROVEN to be significantly moar beneficial and effective for your training, the moar attention you pay to it. Simple? It's not hard to understand. So now, our exercise, and our uni work path have both come aligned, we can see that they pretty much the same.

You work hard to push the weight up,
You gradually get into the rhythm and studying methods of uni.

You pause for a little to prepare for the change in phases,
You take a mid sem break, tho now you have worked up the knowledge in ur head.

You work hard to VERY slowly lower the weight (try it, it's a lot harder than it sounds.),
You work hard and revise to retain knowledge while applying it.

Final Hold,
Final Exams.

If you did a proper rep of the right weight, then GG y'all, y'all be feelin' awesome,
If you did well in the exams, kick back, relax and get ready for the next thing to come ur way.
(well, not really for the exams =P coz even IF we do well we all still gon be shittin' our pants in anticipation)

Hahahahaha,
so that's my take, may sound a lil silly, and i might sound like i'm in a craze bout exercise, but that's how i like to look at it sometimes. Y'all might do it too, but with other things, apply what you're good at to something you're tryna get done and you'll find out that....they might not be all that different after all.

ITS SO HUMID, IM DYING SiiGH
nonetheless, GYM TIME.


Take it easy,
Mr. Jyamaigo