Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Over train ?

jackack
jackack
Posts: 12
Joined: 2004/02/10
South Africa
2004/03/24, 09:00 AM
How do you know when you have over-trained?

Thanks
neiltilley
neiltilley
Posts: 325
Joined: 2003/03/09
United Kingdom
2004/03/24, 10:44 AM
hard one. but trial and error will tell you.
lately I have started training 4 times a week but
only one muscle group a week. ie bicep/delts once, tricep/shoulders once, legs once, back/chest once in every 6 to 7 days only... But I'm going heavy and smart on this..
I find it easy to progress a kilo or a rep a week like this.

Basically, you know you are overtraining when you can't lift the reps/sets/weight you did last time. Failing to make progress.

Training less could be... your training more!