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2006/06/26, 03:18 PM
Are you exercising too much?
Overtraining occurs when athletes try too hard to improve performance and train beyond the body's ability to recover.
The common warning signs of overtraining include the following:
• Mild leg soreness, general achiness
• Pain in muscles & joints
• Washed-out feeling, tired, drained, lack of energy
• Sudden drop in ability to run ‘normal’ distance or times
• Insomnia
• Headaches
• Inability to relax, twitchy, fidgety
• Insatiable thirst, dehydration
• Lowered resistance to common illnesses; colds, sore throat, etc.
WHAT TO DO if you have some of these Warning Signs?
If you're suffering from several of these warning signs go see your physician so that any potentially serious problem can be ruled out. Otherwise, just stop & rest, take a few days off. Drink plenty of fluids, check & alter your diet if necessary. Maybe plan an alternate work-out routine so that your not constantly working just the same muscle groups. If you don’t receive consistant massage work, this would be a good time to get one or two sessions to help flush metabolic wastes out of your system and help loosen up. To prevent further overtraining injuries, check out some of the more common overuse factors associated. You may need to modify all or part of what you’re doing.
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"One Ring to rule them all; One Ring to find them; One Ring to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them." -LOTR Trilogy
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2006/07/03, 01:35 AM
bump
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2006/07/03, 01:44 AM
kinda rediculus. For one thing, this post seems fairly innaccurate in my opinion. You would have to be VASTLY overtrained to experiance headache.
Also, it leaves out the most reliable signs of overtraining...
*Lack of motivation.
*Elevated pulse rate upon waking
*Ease in loss of breath
"Maybe plan an alternate work-out routine so that your not constantly working just the same muscle groups. "
You shouldn't be doing this in the first place. Regardless of sport or goals, you should achieve a balance in your training by training ALL of your muscle groups.
"If you don’t receive consistant massage work, this would be a good time to get one or two sessions to help flush metabolic wastes out of your system and help loosen up."
While I am all for deep tissue massage as a recovery aid, it might help if the author knew WHY. Massage actually creates more metabolic waste, which is why after ART or regular massage, you are encouraged to drink a good deal of water.
As for taking a day or two off, if your joints hurt and you are suffering from insatiable thirst, then you are going to need more than a day off.
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Iron and chalk.
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Quoting from bisleri:
I have heard that working chest and tricep on the same day leads to size reduction of the arms. Is it true.
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2006/07/03, 03:52 AM
sometimes taking a week or two off after overtraining even slight overtraining is vital....as it tends to get progressively worse
I like trying getting extra sleep, taking additional Vitamin C as well as slightly bumping up Fish Oil, creatine, and taking B-vitamins......B-Complex is great at suppressing overtraining symptoms....
good points wrestler....
nice post manny
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2006/07/03, 09:38 AM
Also dont forget "lowered immune system" overtraining can cause your immune system to fail,resulting in more illness
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2006/07/03, 06:26 PM
Adding to that menace, I like to double my water intake. I personally overtrain VERY quickly if I am consistently under-hydrated.
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Iron and chalk.
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Quoting from bisleri:
I have heard that working chest and tricep on the same day leads to size reduction of the arms. Is it true.
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2006/07/04, 01:48 AM
Thanks for the input guys. I was hoping to get more info on overtraining by posting the above. IMO this is something a lot of new people need to know since most of them overdue things in the beginning.:)
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"One Ring to rule them all; One Ring to find them; One Ring to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them." -LOTR Trilogy
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2006/07/11, 12:42 AM
yuck I've had a few bad run ins with overtraining myself. I can personally relate to the immune system crash, during the early spring of this year when I was getting back into weights I was really pushing myself to the limits, felt like I had to make up for the two months I hadn't been working out consistently. I got slammed with the flu, and oh boy let me tell you flu muscle aches with muscle soreness just sucks!
When doing any excersize, if the pain is sharp, and sudden slow down and give that muscle group a break. If it's mild, and consistent than that's probably about right.
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