All the time you can read here about regeneration. But what is regeneration anyway? And why is it important for your personal training planning?
Regeneration means: recovery
Regeneration is simply about allowing the body to recover. Recovery means: to get back from a stressed state to a more efficient one. So that one can then give everything again to achieve the desired build-up.
And, very important: The muscle build-up you want to achieve will only take place when the trained muscle has recovered. This means: An too early next training session will hinder this build-up!
Recovery? From what?
Regeneration is about repairing something. In build-up training these are the muscles that are under stress. Why repaired? Because they have been damaged by hard training. No, no muscle tears or anything. But: Very small, but many mini injuries that you cannot see with the naked eye.
What, regeneration? Sauna, or what?
But what does that mean exactly? Doing nothing at all, getting a massage or going to the sauna instead of a workout?
There are many things you can do to promote regeneration. But the most important point is: You should not do anything that puts a heavy load on muscles that are still stressed from the last training. Therefore it is important to know which of your muscles are in which condition today.
