Avoid Overtraining
March 12th 2010 07:49
Overtraining can happen to bodybuilders and athletes; therefore, in general they need to be cognitive of overtraining the body. Anyone who has ever been a bodybuilder or competitive athlete has some time in their sports career experienced overtraining.
It happens frequently in athletes who train for competition or a specific event. They train further than their bodies are capable of recovering. This is an effective way to train in order to achieve success in their competition, but when overtraining is frequent or happening on a regular basis, then it’s time to chill.
Athletes regularly exercise longer and harder with the purpose of improving their abilities. There is nothing wrong with this type of training. Yet, if athletes train without sufficient rest and recovery, these training programs flop and in reality reduce the body’s strength, immune system and overall performance.
Training means conditioning the body, which requires a balance between overload and recovery. Every athlete needs to watch for too much overload and not enough recovery, which results in physical and mental exhaustion.
A few symptoms are:
Irritability
Tiredness
Frequent Colds or Flu Like Symptoms
Restless Sleep
Increase in Muscle Pain
I like my kickboxing instructor's advice -- "Listen to your body!"
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