Ever pushed yourself to the limit?

[Sugarj]

I've trained a number of times to a point of actually throwing up or being super light headed. I doubt its of much benefit.

Continuously beating your times in timed runs to maximum effort, or doing pressups or situps to failure ( when you cant do one more without collapse )is hitting the limit. Or doing squatting star jumps in circuit training to a point when your legs are too rubbery to even leave the ground when you try to jump and when you stop the room spins like your pissed is hitting the limit.

You know you've really hit it when afterwards you feel physically drained, sick, no energy to even watch a movie and you dont feel great at all.

I dont recommend the above, it probably saps the desire to repeat intense training and leaves the body in calorie deficit. Good training is gradual improvement in a number of disciplines that can be measured over time, you should want to improve your performance, not wipe yourself out!

[sukhenkoy]

While pushing yourself to the limit is important, especially in a sport like boxing, it has to be done in moderation. Like PunchDrunk mentioned, there are physical repercussions to training, but, on top of that, the mental aspects can be even more debilitating.

If you train to the point of throwing up or feeling lightheaded, you'll begin to associate your training with that, and, after a while, your psyche will just try to do everything it can to prevent you from doing that kind of training. After that, you simply start losing motivation for the sport, and might even grow wary of going to training because you know you don't enjoy it anymore.

I don't care what you might say, but training until you want to throw up or feel completely lightheaded cannot in any way be enjoyable to normal people.

That being said, there definitely have to be days of training where you completely bust your balls to the floor. Just have to be smart about how many days of those you have.

[d_lyrik803]

man this guy @ my gym was in the SFA, and he said they were broken down mentally and physically everyday. he said it was the only way they could face the real thing out in the field. he says boxing is similar. of course being part of the armed forces is different then being inside the ring but as far as training i have to agree with him. as long as you push your self to the limit, eat right, rest well, and consume the necessary vitamins, i think you'll be alright. i mean, its the only way to find out what your capable of mentally and physically.

[Squabbles94806]

I think you really gotta know your body when you do hard rigorous training.
Most of it is mental, in my opinion.

The best time to push yourself is when you're tired. It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

Throwing up is a good sign of red lining it. It's worse to have red eyes than throwing up though. Just stay hydrated and make sure you have calories to burn.

[Equilibrium]

Sorry, but that is not overtraining. Overtraining is not something you do in a single training session, it is a physical state that is accumulated over several months.

Thats what i meant. If i trained like this every night, wouldn't it become over training?

[DJ QUIK]

i ****d a chick once and pushed her lawyer to his limits.

[Danny Gunz]

Every once in a while ill do that, usually it involves alot of running and leg/core work

[mishka80]

Sorry, but that is not overtraining. Overtraining is not something you do in a single training session, it is a physical state that is accumulated over several months.

I do agree, that doing what you did shouldn't be done every night. Depending on your work capacity and level of athleticism, it can easily be done 3-4 times a week though, and everyday (or even 2-3 times a day) for shorter periods (training camps etc.).

Wrong. Overtraining can be accumulated in a matter of days, not several months...say you have no rest breaks throughout the week....and you're training you're ass off every single day....that can be considered overtraining...as you're not giving your muscles enough rest to recuperate and rebuild lost tissue

[alza1988]

You wonder how Ricky Hatton must feel having to lose nearly 3 stones .That must take alot out of him . It's defintley got to be a waste of energy for training in training camps.

[PunchDrunk]

Wrong. Overtraining can be accumulated in a matter of days, not several months...say you have no rest breaks throughout the week....and you're training you're ass off every single day....that can be considered overtraining...as you're not giving your muscles enough rest to recuperate and rebuild lost tissue

No, you're wrong. What you're talking about is called over reaching, not over training. Over training takes months to achieve, and consequently, can take months to recover from. A week of overdoing it can be recovered from within days, hence it is over reaching.