Time for a Training Slow Down? Then Adjust Downwards Your Diet Proactively.

Sometimes the road to training is best taken at half speed.

I didn't think that made a whole lot of sense until I was told that I won't be able to train for the rest of the year.

Due to "Unforseen Circumstances", I'm on the bench, Coach.

What that means is that I hit a pause.

When someone asked "How's Bill?", "Hungry" was a good response.

I had said that the Afterburners are on and that it takes a lot of fuel to power a V8.

Automotive metaphors aside, whenever I had to take a pause on training, I would throw the brakes on the training diet as well.

As time goes on and you are training, Skate/Bike/Run/Whatever, your body starts wanting more food.  Your weight will drop, your need will increase.

I am assuming that you have that training diet down and were getting in the proper amounts after developing a balanced diet all on your own.

I know, it's a lofty assumption but I was at the point where there was a dessert with every single meal, another one after dinner's dessert, and an off day was 3000 calories.

Now, I've managed to cut that intake down to a maximum of 1500 calories regardless,  and I don't think I hit that yesterday.

It's a parallel to when I was competitive in inline skating back in The Days.  Injury is not the only reason to aggressively limit your intake, something as simple as weather and season is another good one.

I'd approach winter and begin to slow down as early as September, like Now, when the days got shorter.  By the time I had to stop and shift everything into an indoor gym, I'm down to almost "regular" person schedules and eating "normally".

I told this to my boss who was a power lifter at the time and he just couldn't wrap his head around why I would worry so much.

Then he laughed, and I thought "He must have taken a plate to the head" and smiled.

*CLANK*!  How's that Rich?

If you find yourself approaching a training slow down.  Vacation would be a good reason.  Definitely make an adjustment to the intake or else you'll be carrying around extra weight when you can go back to it.  The muscle mass loss will be bad enough.

So I shall be looking at the home gym that has collected dust and making sure that the cables are set and begin to do the resistance exercises I have long avoided.

Cardio is life.  Resistance was futile.

But you have to do both.