Fallback Plan
June 8th, 2010 | 
Author: Sometimes, even the best-laid plans fall by the wayside. Maybe you wanted to get a good weight-lifting session in, but an injury prevented you from getting to the gym. Maybe you were going to run outside, but severe thunderstorms derailed that idea. What do you do?
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Relax! It’s okay. The body you’ve been building won’t disappear overnight. After all, it didn’t appear out of thin air. It took work. Blood, sweat and tears. You pushed yourself. You wanted to collapse from exhaustion, but fought through it, anyway.
Remember that. It didn’t happen by accident, and missing a few days here and there won’t even make a dent in all that progress you’ve made. So, relax, and use that time to let your body rest and heal up. We all need that from time to time. It’s absolutely nothing to stress over.
-Drew
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Skipping days now and then is a GOOD thing! It gives your body a chance to recover and get out of the swing of things, thus accelerating your progress when you pick it back up again. Plus, everyone needs to cut loose and have a little fun sometimes.
Drew,
Very encouraging reminder as I’ve found little time to exercise in the past few days. I still get that guilt complex, but I know I won’t be any worse off by skipping a workout or two.
Dave
Darrin – Yeah, I’ve been laying off a bit to let my body recover after the soccer season.
Dave – I hate gym guilt. I struggle with it quite often. I feel like if I miss a day, then I’ve set myself back WEEKS in progress, but that’s just not true. Hard to fight, sometimes.
-Drew
Or if all else fails, do handstand pushups, planks, bodyweight squats for high reps
That too
-Drew
yeah i use to think MY GOD I missed a day of training but after awhile I realised I could miss a couple of weeks and didn’t matter much … its all in the head