Trying too hard?

Are you killing your fitness progress by trying too hard?

A lot of people are more than likely unaware to the fact that a major reason why they A. Don't get good results quickly enough, and B. May end up hating exercise and working out all together, is down to this:

Your workouts are way, way too hard! Yes, you heard me, you need to give yourself some slack here :-)

The image below from 7 Minute Workout is used with permission and shows an important fact about how long it really takes to recuperate.

As you can see, there are two stages or states here, catabolism and anabolism. Exercise naturally brakes your body (mainly muscle fiber) down - that's the catabolic part.

What is important in order to progress is the anabolic part. This is where you're body compensates and makes your muscles and body stronger. In other words, it's the time away from the exercise which provide you the benefits!