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The easiest signs of overtraining are a feeling of chronic fatigued sate, sleepless nights, irritability and loss of motivation. Another way is a creep up in resting heart rate if you have taken baseline measurements
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As well as the increase in resting HR, you may also notice difficulty in getting your HR elevated when doing intense cardio. Interestingly, I find many people can perform much better after going on vacation for several days while doing only moderate activities.
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You can also tell by a consistent decline in performance. If you notice a client can't do things they normally do along with a change in attitude towards their workouts then you can start asking about other symptoms like sleep disorders, diet, depression. Ask them if they are doing any extra work on the side that they didn't discuss with you. I notice a lot of people get excited about reaching new levels of fitness and over-reach. Good luck.
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I worked with a national champion body builder about six months ago.
Suddenly, her body shut down. She started gaining weight rapidly.. nearly 100 poundsn in just six months. The doctors could not determine why she was gaining weigth so quickly.
In addition to that she had knee injuries, back problems and a number of other things.
Her doctors cleared her for training with me. So we did a complete assessment, and that included listening to her history over the past 20 years.
Conclusion; her body shut down because she had pushed her body too hard, she had been following intensive workouts for 20 years, she had been eating only 1000 calories a day, and she was a person who expected perfection in everything. She was so stressed.. demanding so much from herself.
I put her on a modified, light workout. I taught her how to included meditation in her daily practice, and we put her a proper caloric intake for maintaining her weight.
She learned through our coaching sessions that life is short, and she needed to enjoy relaxing and being happy. We rehabed her back and knees, but it was my challenge to keep a lid on her workouts as she over did everything.
In the first month she lost 7 pounds and 11 inches. Stress and overworking was her key problem.
The body is not meant to overwork. It has one goal..LIVE.. and when we push it too hard, we cause our adrenal gland to overwork..putting us in a fight or flight mode.. which is not healthy. Our body will shut down, stop losing weight, and we will become more inclined to have injuries.
Like I tell my clients.. it did not take you a week to put on 50 pounds, and it will not take a week to get it off.
Peace
Suddenly, her body shut down. She started gaining weight rapidly.. nearly 100 poundsn in just six months. The doctors could not determine why she was gaining weigth so quickly.
In addition to that she had knee injuries, back problems and a number of other things.
Her doctors cleared her for training with me. So we did a complete assessment, and that included listening to her history over the past 20 years.
Conclusion; her body shut down because she had pushed her body too hard, she had been following intensive workouts for 20 years, she had been eating only 1000 calories a day, and she was a person who expected perfection in everything. She was so stressed.. demanding so much from herself.
I put her on a modified, light workout. I taught her how to included meditation in her daily practice, and we put her a proper caloric intake for maintaining her weight.
She learned through our coaching sessions that life is short, and she needed to enjoy relaxing and being happy. We rehabed her back and knees, but it was my challenge to keep a lid on her workouts as she over did everything.
In the first month she lost 7 pounds and 11 inches. Stress and overworking was her key problem.
The body is not meant to overwork. It has one goal..LIVE.. and when we push it too hard, we cause our adrenal gland to overwork..putting us in a fight or flight mode.. which is not healthy. Our body will shut down, stop losing weight, and we will become more inclined to have injuries.
Like I tell my clients.. it did not take you a week to put on 50 pounds, and it will not take a week to get it off.
Peace
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Watching, taking note of their body, posture, form, and mental stress.
Its ok to over train, as long as they're under the supervision of someone experienced and take care to recover correctly.
Its ok to over train, as long as they're under the supervision of someone experienced and take care to recover correctly.
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Lack of concentration, injuries, loss of motivation, etc. All of these reasons including what everyone else has mentioned are signs of overtraining. This is the reason why we as professionals should be able to spot these signs right away and know when our clients are overdoing it. Waiting until this happens it's too late and it shows poor judgment from our part.
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There are many signs of overtraining. You can easily look them up.
The most important part of fitness programs is recovery. If an exerciser follows proper recovery protocols, they will be very unlikely to ever overtrain.
To explain to you here all the nuances of assuring proper recovery would take a lot of time. I teach this subject as part of my program for fitness professionals. You could come to the Big Island of Hawaii and take some classes with me. Or you could find someone near you that teaches the subject. Or you could invest some time researching the topic and learning about it on your own. All three choices require an investment of time. As they say, time is money. Spend it wisely.
The most important part of fitness programs is recovery. If an exerciser follows proper recovery protocols, they will be very unlikely to ever overtrain.
To explain to you here all the nuances of assuring proper recovery would take a lot of time. I teach this subject as part of my program for fitness professionals. You could come to the Big Island of Hawaii and take some classes with me. Or you could find someone near you that teaches the subject. Or you could invest some time researching the topic and learning about it on your own. All three choices require an investment of time. As they say, time is money. Spend it wisely.
