If you are sedentary all week long, when you do hit the gym you've got a lot more ground to cover before you see real progress.

When I'm going well, I'll hit the ball the other way. That's where I got in trouble the last week is that I pulled everything - no matter if it's a fastball away. Today I told myself I'm going to try to go the other way. I was fortunate enough to do it, and I hit everything pretty much. You have to know your strengths.

The idea is not to increase intensity, but to challenge your body by forcing it to recover more quickly.

When the body is doing a set rhythm, it expends less energy than when it's forced into multiple movements.

It could even be setting you up for injury if you have muscle imbalances.

The whole gym environment, especially if it's machine-based, focuses on very fixed, linear-path movements, but the body doesn't really work that way in real life.