Recently, my lifting routine has been almost all compound movements...usually with either squats or dead lifts as the first exercise, and then something a little less extreme for 4 sets or so, but keeping weight and intensity HIGH. I've been making pretty good gains with this dinosaur approach. However, I will say that the next day, besides being sore as one would expect, I usually feel really drained and almost hungover (minus the headache).

For lack of a better description, I kind of feel like shit. However, I don't like being idle and usually want to get my blood moving in one way or another. I went for a swim today, and I'll tell ya, it's just what I needed! Nice, easy, low impact exercise, telling my muscles to move some blood without re-destroying them before they could recover. It was also hot/humid as hell here in the Northeast, so I wrote-off jogging or anything of that nature. That's my story...Anyone else here swim? For fun? For Bodybuilding? Lets hear it.