Learning That Recovery Is Part of the Routine

[Mike_mike]

One lesson thats I learned from following a structured split routine is that recovery deserves as much attention as training itself. In the beginning i would add extra exercises whenever I felt motivated thinking it would speed up my progress instead I often felt sore my performance dropped I wasn't giving my body enough time to recover. Once I trusted the routine & stopped adding unnecessary work I actually started feeling stronger from week to week. It reminded me that progress comes from balancing effort with proper recovery not from doing the most exercises possible.