I'm sooo f*cking frustrated with getting toned! Were all my workouts a waste because I had to sit out and rest for two weeks due to a pulled muscle?

[krankblair]

I was only lifting for a month until I pulled something in my quad when I was sprinting. It's almost fully healed and its two weeks later. all of this BS My body looks THE SAME as it would have if I've been a couch potato! so annoyed.

by the way idgaf about arms right now. my goal was to build a butt and legs and abs.

[Anonymous]

It's going to be a few months before you build muscle like 3 to 8 months to build muscle. You have to switch your routine can't work the same group no more than 3 days a week. 1 day legs ,1 day abs ,1 day cardio, and 1 day arm/ shoulder. then you could do another leg day. Before I started lifting I had to know proper form it took me about 3 weeks to get proper form. If your form is good you can get an effective workout from lighter weights. Some people say form isn't everything and they don't know what the fuck they are talking about, your body can burn more when your form is right and you're giving 100. Workouts weren't a waste stay consistent.

[kaylaS91]

No, all of the workouts you did prior to pulling something in your quad which made you have to take 2 weeks off did not go to waste.

Though you may have lost a bit of progress, the muscle memory that you previously built up remains the same. You'll get back to where you were before much faster the second time around than it took you to get there initially.

[ATPPC]

Your priority should be on reducing body fat % before you work on size. When sprinting your body burns mostly phosphocreatine as fuel as opposed to distance running which burns glucose (carbs) and fat. Don't sprint anymore it is quite dangerous to push your body to its max limit. If you still want high intensity go for interval training. That and middle distance running (<10km) will both build size. It's only when you run a marathon everyday that you end up looking like a skeleton.

[ATPPC]

You can lose fat fairly fast but when it comes to building muscle it's a slow process. Imagine building/losing fat as creating a pile of dirt and building muscle as building a house. At the same time muscle is also hard to lose, unless you have not been using that muscle at all...

So no those two weeks were not a waste. The increase in metabolic enzymes you've gained while sprinting however may be gone but I don't think that's a big deal.

One month of training is when you may first notice any sort of progress. Don't be discouraged.

[dem134]

You can't out train a bad diet... If you would have ate healthy while nursing the injury you would have kept your gainz

[ChromAzonyx108]

Injuries can be a big set-back. Better to not overdo things as it's more important to exercise continuously and have patience.