overtraining...

[Trrmo]

You pass out when you're having sex with Rafa.

LOL, she falls asleep more likely

If you train to much you usually end up with an injury (like me, I damaged my knee thinking I am 10 yrs younger)! or a weak immune system and you catch colds (also like me lately) you end up missing out time in the gym so you find training so hard and frequent was a waste of time.

[BETTY SWOLLOCKS]

You pass out when you're having sex with Rafa.

Cos of the chloroform.

[mkm88414]

iv read a statement by dr. john berardi stating that overtraining is very real, however most will never experience overtraining and instead suffer from CNS fatigue or exhaustion which to me is basically the same but less severe.

[sukhenkoy]

LOL, she falls asleep more likely

If you train to much you usually end up with an injury (like me, I damaged my knee thinking I am 10 yrs younger)! or a weak immune system and you catch colds (also like me lately) you end up missing out time in the gym so you find training so hard and frequent was a waste of time.

Yeah the cold is pretty common after overtraining. Big problem I find too is starting to lack a desire to train.

I'd say (just to be on the safe side) to just train hard everyday, and work your way up slowly, but surely. Don't rush into doing too many reps/sets of something. Build it up and your body has time to adjust.

[Trrmo]

Yeah the cold is pretty common after overtraining. Big problem I find too is starting to lack a desire to train.

I'd say (just to be on the safe side) to just train hard everyday, and work your way up slowly, but surely. Don't rush into doing too many reps/sets of something. Build it up and your body has time to adjust.

Yeah thats what I am doing now just resting but feeling guilty about not going to the gym so far this week while I am getting over a cold. Just been doing weights at home.
The funny thing is I am 73 kgs now, which is real light for my height - took that pic in avatar this week (I will fight at (72.8) if my knee stabilises) and this is without doing much training at the moment due to cold/injury, now I have to up my calories to maintain my weight, feeling pretty skinny so gonna try and bulk a little, weights is something I can still do ok. About 8 months ago I was 83kgs.

[sukhenkoy]

]Yeah thats what I am doing now just resting but feeling guilty about not going to the gym so far this week while I am getting over a cold.[/B] Just been doing weights at home.
The funny thing is I am 73 kgs now, which is real light for my height - took that pic in avatar this week (I will fight at (72.8) if my knee stabilises) and this is without doing much training at the moment due to cold/injury, now I have to up my calories to maintain my weight, feeling pretty skinny so gonna try and bulk a little, weights is something I can still do ok. About 8 months ago I was 83kgs.

I know exactly how you feel man. I feel ridiculously guilty when I miss a day of training. After a while it just becomes a habit it seems, almost like brushing your teeth.

If that's you in the avatar, then it looks like your training is going good man - looks like your dropped quite a bit of weight from your last avatar. Keep up the good work trmmo.

[Lenny McLean]

So if i pass out, would tht be classed as over training?

More likely it will be dehydration. Down a litre before gym, no more(bloating and pissing will be the result) and no less.

this is a dangerous philosophy. its really easy to overtrain, especially if you are not an elite athlete because your body hasnt adapted to intense workouts. you have to build up to training at the level that you are suggesting is "hard enough." this is exactly the misinformed outlook that breeds overtraining.

you can tell if you are overtraining by unshakeable fatigue, drop in performance levels, loss of appetite, depression, loss of enthusiasm for the sport, joint pains....

rest is just as important a variable of program design as anything else (reps, intensity, sets, etc). thats why boxers have camps. they ideally have a program design that peaks right before their fight. it explains why people like vernon forrest (vs mora) and paul williams (vs quintana) look shabby when their fights got rescheduled for a later date. it throws off the whole schedule and they peak to soon so that by the time the fight arrives, they have been overtraining...

So you mention top pro's like Willimas who have camps where they train like dogs. Listen from my experience most people who complain about overtraining are bums who do ten press ups and then sit around chatting **** for 10 minutes. I ignore them ****s deliberately in the gym. It is very hard to overtrain if you get your rest. Most people who have easy jobs can also train twice in one day if they get adequate rest and eat right. Ice baths make it impossible to overtrain because they get rid of all lactic acid. Man up, sit in one and forget the bull**** myth of opvertraining.

On a side note, exccessive weight training makes you slow and is for bums who use it as excuse because they can't do calisthenics.