Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Overtraining

A phrase I have heard countless times but refused to be true..probably due to my slight OCD...But the more fitness magazines I REALLY read along with my certification material,the more I realize it is true...You can overtrain..and when you do,you not only risk injury but you will stop seeing results..That doesn't even make sense you train more and harder because you want results so bad that you end up undoing it or plateauing and risking injury...I am well aware that the gym is not for building muscle, it is for breaking muscle down and when you rest is actually when you build the muscle..I just never put it all together..otherwise I would have definitely been resting more!It is ideal to let the trained muscle group rest 72 hours before training it again.That thought used to bother me to no end..I thought and wanted to train total body in some way EVERY day..Not anymore..The way I now look at it is my 2-3hr workouts of total body are now 90-120 min of one group which in actuality means that group is getting more attention, which makes me happy and keeps my OCD in check from reverting back to "overtraining".