Describe overtraining?
Overtraining is a general term.
But I hear many of this athlete who train day and night and doesn’t effect there body or ability to execute. So what is overtraining exactly?
when you apply pressure on you physical self that you body may not handle is that overtraining?
How could you tell what is overtraining?
Here is a nice quote from Roger Mayweather that is one pressure:
" You cant escape pressure. You have to understand pressure and control it to you advantage."
That means could we say that overtraining is all in the mental mind. It depends on how you look at things and what are you goals? Could you adapt training 6 day per week for long period of time because you believe you wanna achieve something with yourself and that is not only on a physical appearance but mostly mental which people sometimes skip on it.
February 26, 2009 at 5:02 pm
over training is when your body responds to the stresses implied on it in a NEGATIVE way, this doesn’t mean that you’re over training if you put on a lot of weight on the rack, or that you workout for 2,3 or more hours a day 6 or even 7 days a week, or run 18 miles a day. Your body will tell you what exactly is overtraining so there is such thing. Symptoms of overtraining are:
When your body is fatigued even when doing daily activities you feel tired, you might think it’s lazyness at first, but even by putting energy in your body it will respond negative.
-when you start getting a cold….specially after so many weeks, months of straight through training 6 days a week, your body will lower its immune system so that you let it rest a few days. It could be a cold that can take you a week to 2 weeks to get over.
-you train hard enough without going up on weight but rather noticing weakness by needing to go down on weight on the rack even if you’ve been used to lifting heavy.
-your body asks for sleep
-pull or strain a muscle
-Yes there are ways to keep on training to prevent overtraining, listen to your body more and it will tell you what it needs.
March 10, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Overtraining can be physical as well as mental, though people generally associate it with the physical symptoms.
Physical overtraining can take many forms such as the ones that skyboxxshawdy listed, but there are more.
One instance I experienced in overtraining was when I was at a training camp for kayaking (4 trainings a day, basically 8 hours of working out a day for 4-5 weeks).
What I experienced is common for many high level athletes:
- Diminished Performance, endurance, power, speed.
- Constantly Tired
- Can’t sleep at night even though tired.
- Heart Rate is higher in the morning before getting out of bed than it is before going to bed. (mine is usually around 60, when I was overtraining it would be as high as 81 in the morning)
The psychological symptoms:
- Irritable
- Over sensitive to criticism
- Avoidance of coach or teammates
- General loss of enjoyment in the sport.
For some there are ways of avoiding overtraining, I find that keeping a fitness journal helps prevent that for myself. That way I can note my physical and emotional state during training or sports. There are many people though, who have stopped sports entirely because of overtraining. There was an American Highschool basketball trainer who was amazing (I cant remember her name), she was guaranteed any scholarship in any university. But she ended up walking away from all of the scholarships and basketball entirely because of overtraining. She just didnt enjoy basketball anymore, didnt enjoy the training, the games, nothing.
March 10, 2009 at 2:30 pm
what about the desire?
I write part of this by watching two boxers Floyd Mayweather and Berand Hopkins. Overtraining in the book is none.
Floyd Mayweather is said to wake up 3:00 in the morning to jog 10miles it gives him the mental edge against his competitiors. And he was still driving force but now he is no longer fighting he have retired.
There is sometimes when a person is too tired to move but he got to move for survival what about that type of training?
March 18, 2009 at 1:43 am
1. Regarding desire,one of the symptoms of overtraining is unexplained vanishment of desire. That was what "swindled" was trying to say
2.If you have to move in spite of being too tired to move that sure means you ARE overtrained at that point in time