Overtraining is something we often hear about in fitness magazines but rarely ever experience.
Many of us will feel sore or exhausted after a workout, but are these feelings actually overtraining?
In most cases what people think is overtraining is actually under conditioning.
In other words, you’re just not strong enough or have enough endurance for the workout you attempted.
True overtraining is a state where you have completely pushed your body beyond it’s limits and you break down physically and mentally. The feeling is similar to having the flu, and in fact you can get sick in a true state of overtraining.
In today’s audio lesson we’ll discuss the difference between true over training and simply pushing too hard at a given workout.
You’ll learn what the real signs of over training are and how to know when you’re really approaching it and when you’re just sore from a good workout.
John
(Download Transcript: Are You Overtraining?)
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I think many people see ‘healthy’ as those images in adverts. If my system/chakra/subconscious was working properly I’d be like that.
Never mind the CGI, air brushing, surgery, lighting, make-up, location, write-up and the viewer’s mindset when you see it (hassled, in the supermarket, reading about how to loose fat loss, etc).
Great point.
Hi there! Great video this one, it’s a tough subject and I really enojoyed the insight.
However, there is something that has always bothered me and that is.. when does one know that one should give it a rest? I mean, in terms of muscular soreness is it a good idea to workout a sore muscle group? I’m asking this because I’ve been working out at home, litghlty I admit, I only have a set of dumbbels and my bodyweight to work it but, for example, with push ups I can’t seem to get better at them. If I do like 3 sets of 10 on one day the next day my chest will be sore and I give it a rest for, usually two days or so. Is it wrong? Should I push it further and work it out even when sore?..
Thanks in advance.
Hey,
I’ve been working out for a while and i was using the regular muscle building program when you excercise a part of the body by day(monday-chest,tuesday-back etc).After doing it for a while i started feeling too exhausted the next day and when i forced my self to excercise the next day i wasn’t able to do the the excercises to the end.I kept doing that and i started feeling pain in my heart after couple of days.I stopped excercising took a some rest but that kept happening every now and then so if you could give me advice what to do and what i’m doing wrong i’ll be very grateful.oh yeah every time i excercised i was trying to push myself harder then the last workout on that given day more reps or weight.
Thanks in advance
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