Taking a "health" break

Taking a "health" break

April 4th, 2019

What's a health break? Am I sick? Why am I taking a break and what exactly am I taking a break of?  Find out on the next episode of dragon ball z.....HEADASSSSS.

So now that I've made one joke of the year; lets talk about the title and what I actually mean!

To answer the first few questions, no I'm not sick, nothing is wrong health wise!  In fact that's the reason for the break so I can continue to stay healthy and responsive.  What exactly am I taking a break of? Well let's not ignore the dark horse in the room, aka gear.  Yes its a part of our sport and its what we choose to do.  That being said, I personally believe it's important to keep things moving smoothly and to do so I find taking a few breaks throughout the year to come off everything completely to be best for the body and the receptors.  So only being 24, I have gotten by with coming off cold turkey before and my body responded fine.  HERES THE KICKER!  My diet and training was 100% spot on after I came off and I firmly believe that's how I was able to recover so quickly even though I had just done a full 6 months of competition prep.  There wasn't a specific reason that I came off cold turkey other than I wanted to know if my body could respond naturally being I was so young which at the time was 23 years old. I wouldn't necessarily say or recommend to do what I did and come off cold turkey like that, but I knew my diet and training was going to stay on point, so really I wasn't worried.  My age played a huge factor in the no worry part, I knew my body would bounce back.  

This time around things are a bit different and I have a very specific goal in mind.  With that being said no goal works unless you have a gameplan of which I do.  This time I plan to do the typical PCT which I'll talk about on another day, once I finish that short protocol I'll  come all the way off and do my best to detox my body for a few more weeks.  In my opinion this is the best thing I can do for my body before I go back onto a heavy pre contest cycle and put it through all that stress.   I'd really like to give my receptors a nice break from all the androgens, I plan to give my digestive tract a little bit of a break with all the carbohydrates, and I also plan to pull back on my training volume a little bit.  Disclaimer:  I won't do all this at once!  Last thing I want to do is pull back my food, supplements and training all at once.  That's how we lose everything we just spent our entire off season building.  

So what's the point of the break?

The point is to let my body rest, and recoup from the hard off season I just had. 

A stressed out body is an unresponsive body.  I really feel like I get the most out of things when my body is fresh and ready to rock and roll.   I'll also say the same for the mental part of the game, this upcoming break is going to do me well in the terms of unloading all the stress from constantly trying to live my life around the off season and making every second of my day anabolic (half kidding lol).

I'm looking forward to how my body will respond after this so I'm just going to keep that on my mind and and hope this break goes by quickly.

Thanks for reading! 

 Hope everyone has a great day!

-Justin