How do you tell if you’re just tired or actually overtraining? I’m doing a ppl with cardio so basically exercising 7 days a week. Gains went up good but it seems hard to go some days, and now I’m trying to cut and struggling to keep my gains.
Overtraining
Jeremiah Bailey
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Ryan Ross
Just eat more haha
Oliver Rivera
>college athletes
>Train intense every day, twice a day
>Compete on weekends
>Jacked as fuck
>You
>Lift for an hour 3 times a week and go running
>Weak and frail
>AM I OVERTRAINING
Isaac Martin
I don’t have access to 5000 calorie meal plans and coaches that will basically suck my dick and get me medical shit.
Elijah Nguyen
Persistent muscle soreness
Elevated resting heart rate
Increased susceptibility to infections
Increased incidence of injuries
Irritability
Depression
Loss of motivation
Insomnia
Decreased appetite
Weight loss
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Nathaniel Johnson
>3 times a week
do you know what ppl is
Christian Rogers
Probably a bit of neural fatigue, there's only a certain amount your CNS can handle before it starts to stop working properly. It's like if you did a full day of PR's you feel extremely tired and run down the next day, more than muscle soreness... it's almost as if you have mild flu symptoms. Look it up CNS flu.
James Ross
This, and sleep good.
Unless you're doing multiple gym sessions a day for hours and hours I think you'll be OK. If you have regular life things to worry about it really fucks with recovery
Logan Long
either not eating enough, not sleeping enough, not taking enough rest days, or not eating enough on those rest days
Aiden Miller
My grip strength drops drastically whenever i'm over trained. Like I cant even keep my grip doing 7 pullups and my sleep starts turning to shit. hard to fall asleep or constantly waking up in the middle of the night.
Also, if there's no good reason why I'm noticeably drastically weaker. I slept well enough and I ate well enough but I failed on my first working set, means i needed more rest.
Don't listen to all these dyels saying over training doesn't exist.
Going 6 days a week while constantly progressing for like 3-4 months straight will eventually lead to being over trained. Add an extra rest day or 2 something like PxPLxPxPLx for a little while.
When you cut your recovery gets noticeably worse.
Logan Russell
Not OP, but PPxLxxx with Cardio on rest days is going too far the other way?
Just recently swapped over from doing the 6 day a week thing.
Evan Nguyen
You'll get really sick
Liam Bell
elite college athletes often experience over-training, and they mostly do cardio which is harder to overdo than resistance training. They also work up to that level and have cycles of different activity levels and types of training to ensure they can keep performing.
James Taylor
>Don't listen to all these dyels saying over training doesn't exist.
Maybe it exist for you but you know that everyones different u baldheadfuckface.
OP just test your limits and dont listen to this idiot
Ryder Diaz
Clean up your diet and become more disciplined. Junk food makes me not wanna do anything.
Isaiah Butler
Overtraining is a fucking meme
Jose Russell
probably, I mean you can do that for like a week or 2, but I wouldn't turn it into a routine.
>imagine not pushing yourself hard enough to ever reach a state of being over trained.
ngmi
I should clarify though. You should always at least show up and put in an honest effort.
The number of times where i felt run down and tired but showed up anyways and got into my set and ended up getting through the workload or hitting a new PR is like 80% compared to the times I showed up, realized I wasn't rested enough and went and did cardio, accessories, abs or something.
Don't judge by how you feel. Judge by how your body actually performs.
Thomas Edwards
Grip strength is a good indicator of your cns fatique. If you can't squeeze the dumbells or barbell properly and feel like your grip is weak its a good indicator that your cns has been overloaded.
Don't listen to the faggots here who say overtraining is a meme, they probably don't know anything about fitness.
You need to rest senpai
Bentley Barnes
Elite college athelets eat boatloads of food and sleep a shitload as well as having access to top level medical/recovery stuff. Their entire purpose in life is literally just to play their sport. People like you and me can't be judged by the same criteria.
Blake Lee
College athletes didn't just start training in college, you know. Most have been doing it for like 12 years at that point. They also have doctors, masseurs, etc.
Andrew Walker
>Week or two
Cheers mate.
With shiftwork, and the sessions themselves taking 2+ hours, I was enjoying having the time to be able to do non-lifting things. But I guess that's just laziness with a different coat.
Thanks for the inspiration, user.
Nathan Thompson
overtraining is basically inevitable if you're going heavy as an amateur, train regularly and increase weight, but in most cases it's nothing that a few extra days off wouldn't cure
Juan Hughes
> irritability
> depression
I had these before I started lifting so good to know im not overdoing it