Am I overtraining?

[Bareknuckle]

Sounds like you got heart, but heart goes away if you get injured. Take it from a man who used to train too hard, now I have five pinched nerves in my back, bad ankles, bad knees, and a bad haircut. Now part of that was also working in the oil fields, and warehouses, but I'd recommend altering the weights. Now if you are isolating muscles and doing two different muscle groups a day, that's a lot of with everything else your doing. If I was you, I would be lifting three days a week, and putting a couple of days in between. I always recommend taking some of those days that you are running and instead swimming... Just as good, and not as much stress on the legs. The Elliptical is also a good one. Keep shocking yourself with different exercises, I didn't realize how hard rowing is... You usually don't see rowing machines in gyms anymore, but hey, you live near a river, or ocean, go for it. With that workout, I would be eating a lot of those slow burning carbs like oatmeal, and tunafish for protein. You go to college, or near a high school stadium, go do stairs. I used to do those, and nothing feels better than finishing those monsters. Hope this gives you a few ideas...

cushty. my local leisure opens at about 5am, so i can do a few rounds of shadowboxing at home, then make my way to the swimming baths, and get home before taxi arrives, either that or the nature reserves.

i'll probably do this on tuesday and thursday, to give my body a rest for a while.

thanks man

[Verstyle]

wtf is the point of 15x2 shadowboxing and 10x2 skipping? Just do 10 minutes straight shadowboxing and 10 mins straight skipping.

The whole routine is too long and unless you are either super fit, or half assing all the exercises I find it hard to believe.

I would just run the 3 miles at a good pace, or do an interval routine, do the exercises like pushups, situps etc and go to the gym at night....this isn't the pros, you don't need to get up at 4 and do all that. (unless you start work at like 6 or something)

Amateur fights are 3x3 rounds, you need to do shorter hours of training, at a higher intensity.

Exactly what I was about to say. You do that when you're new new new new to boxing. To get the moves down.

[JoHnNyBoXeR]

Thanks for the replies

from your replies, i doubt i'm overtraining, so i'll continue with my program

and no, i'm not pro, i'm training for amateur right now

are you sparring at all?? if you feel tired and/or sluggish that can be a sign that you're overtraining.. We only fight 3x3 minute rounds or 3x2 minute rounds .. so that seems to be alot for a short fight.. u cant do all those things at a high intensity for that long and the amatuer game is a high intensity fight for a short time..

[Del Coqui]

Dont matter what anyone tells you, everybody is different. Are you getting better, feeling stronger and faster? If not, you're obviously not allowing your body to recuperate, bring it down a notch.