Changing calories to prevent microtrauma

Hi, question for you all, especially steve gardener or anyone with the same area of knowledge.
I am reading diesel's bending manual and it says you should adjust caloric intake when starting bending nails in order to prevent accumulation of microtrauma to the joints and muscles.
How much would this roughly be if only bending once a week at beginner level?
I can feel i am not getting enough calories or sleep so I am stopping training for a few days.

danielemerson wrote:Hi, question for you all, especially steve gardener or anyone with the same area of knowledge.
I am reading diesel's bending manual and it says you should adjust caloric intake when starting bending nails in order to prevent accumulation of microtrauma to the joints and muscles.
How much would this roughly be if only bending once a week at beginner level?
I can feel i am not getting enough calories or sleep so I am stopping training for a few days.

An interesting turn of phrase. First the use of the word 'microtrauma'. Makes it sound like something we've never heard of before where in fact it means little more than wear and tear on the joints and connective tissue and the usual muscle breakdown (catabolism) caused by training. However, adding 'accumulation' in front seems to infer a build up of the same as yet not recovered from. In other words training again on something which can be damaging before you've fully recovered from the previous bout.

Even 'you should adjust caloric intake' is a little vague. There is a habit of some when writing books and especially e-books to attempt to fill space and offer more, more, more. In this case they could have said 'eat more cos you'll be training hard' or 'add some amino acids to your diet (the adjustment)' so as to help recovery.

Nail bending (or any kind of heavy bending) is as much about muscle and energy as it is leverage and connective tissue. You might even throw in the neural response. It can and is, when done to a high level, tough. However, I doubt much actual energy is expended per se over and above baseline norms. So I'd be looking to keep my connective tissue healthy (so Cissus (or similar) and Glucosomine), the short range movements can be hard on the muscles so some amino acids post workout only and IN COMBINATION with my other workouts some protein.

As I say above Dan unless this is ALL the training you're doing and then only once a week look at ALL aspects of your training and indeed your life. For example, it is well known that moving home is a real pain in the ass and one of lives big stresses. Sometimes we're looking for the reasons why we're not sleeping in our training logs (over training being one possibility) when in fact we need to look at outside stresses too.

Adding a small bending session will not, calories wise, burn that much. Add a banana or two to your diet on those days if you feel a little worn out. It is more likely that CNS stress, from the massive strain type effort on the harder steel, is more 'worn'. Possibly ease off on another aspect of training while you focus on bending.

Thanks steve.
Will pay attention to these things when i start training again.