Same routine or less intense routine?

[sophieimpossible22]

Soo I haven't exercised in about three days, and I'm wondering if I should do a regular routine or something less intense? I read somewhere that when your jumping back into routine you should give your body time to get into the motions, so less reps less cardio. What do you think?

[sean1234]

3 days? Call me when you haven't really worked out in 3 years? When I start back up weight lifting when I haven't done it for a few months, or even a few years I have a very specific work out routine that I made up. Like for bench pressing for instance, when I was doing 3 sets of 10 with 210lb's a long long while back, I had to go down to like 135Ib's. Not like I couldn't try doing 200lb's 3X10, but benching it only 3-5 times is ridiculous. After benching 135lb's 10 times I would go up 5lb's then the 2nd set 5 more pounds then 3rd set 5 more. To make it short I would go up incrementally 15 lb's 3 times a week until I could no longer do 3 sets of 10. That time I ended stopping at about 190Ib's and couldn't go up more. Gotta love muscle memory! I tried the same with my back exercises. This past week doing deadlifting/backlifting I'm at 185lb's now, but the same old back pain is kicking in. I don't think I'll ever be able to do 310lb's deadlifting again like when I was 16 years old.

Now enough of my long winded responce, bye now!

[Anonymous]

"Jumping back into a routine" is more for people that haven't exercised in a very long while, like weeks or months. Three days is nothing lol. Just get back into your normal flow.

[sophieimpossible22]

Haha okay I guess I just felt lazier than normal, so days felt like weeks. Thanks for the reply:)

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, I feel the same at the beginning of the week. I go Mon-Wed-Fri (sometimes Sat), and by Monday afternoon, I feel like it's been forever. And for that, Monday's usually seem to be my days that I go hardest on lol

[sophieimpossible22]

I would choose you for best answer but your anonymous, does it matter? I'm not sure

[Opinion Owner]

Nope, knock yourself out :)

[martyfellow]

3 days? You haven't lost anything and your body should be rested, so you can do the same routine as before, and maybe even step it up a little since you're rested.

[sophieimpossible22]

Sounds good, thanks!

[martyfellow]

Welcome, Sophie. Remember me for Best Answer.

[sophieimpossible22]

Lol I will

[MyNameIsJonas]

More. Bigger faster stronger.

Do whatever you can. I like to exercises that put me on the verge of puking or passing out.

[sophieimpossible22]

Good advice, thank you for the reply. I do need to start pushing myself more.

[THE_Godfather]

Do your normal routine. 3 days is nothing. I take a week off for vacations & go right back at it.

[sophieimpossible22]

True, I just felt lazy coming home and playing Xbox that's a lot of couch time lol. Thanks for the advice

[THE_Godfather]

I feel that way sometimes. Once you get to the gym it seems to get better.

[ManThatKnewTooMuch]

This is so cute. She thinks three days is a long time off from exercise... haha! Are you single?

[sophieimpossible22]

Yeah, why?

[ManThatKnewTooMuch]

You're cute. I was curious.

[sophieimpossible22]

Thanks

[jacking]

Have sex with me and you won't feel like you missed any days of exercise;)

[sophieimpossible22]

Ha...Ha...Ha very funny

[jacking]

;)