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Fitness can be a fickle friend. For weeks you may be a fitness fanatic exercising hard every day and then all of a sudden you don’t want to be anywhere near it. Why does this happen? How do you overcome it? What can you do to be sure this never happens to you?
The ultimate goal when exercising is to always be improving. Whether trying to lose weight, gain muscle or increase your strength everyone wants results. However, the key to staying focused and not losing your drive is to understand that rest is just as important as the time put in the gym. Without adequate rest your body will not only lose the time it needs to recover properly, but you also will run the risk of overtraining.
Overtraining is the wall most people hit that stops them dead in their tracks. It can lead to a wide variety of symptoms including a high rate of fatigue and depression. If you start to notice these symptoms then it is time to take a break, reassess your meal plan and take a close look at your sleeping habits to ensure you are getting 8 hours a night. If overtraining happens to you, it would be best to take a full week off from exercising and turn your focus to eating healthy and getting enough rest.
So how do you continuously push yourself to new limits while avoiding overtraining? The secret lies within “deload weeks”. A deload week is a week of training, usually after 4 – 6 weeks straight of intense training, where you train with 50 – 60% of your normal intensity. The goal here is to stay active, but mainly just go through the motions. What this does is provide your muscles and CNS (Central Nervous System) the time they need to properly recover. When training in a deload week you still want to make sure you are hydrating and eating just as you would during your normal training. If you do a lot of intense running, it may be a good idea to do low impact cardio to the point of a slow jog.
Everyone has goals they want to reach and if you put the time into your training, you will definitely reach yours. Just make sure the journey you take to get there is a safe one with no pit stops in Overtraining city! Eat healthy, drink lots of water, sleep well, and remember that Hermanites Train Harder! #HTH
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39 comments
I experienced overtraining when I was 16. I was apart of a mma gym right next to my school. I would train 6 days a week I would train bjj mon/wed/fri then I would do a muay Thai on Tuesday and Thursday followed by a strength and conditioning class an hour later. I developed water retention on my knees and constant fevers after 5 months of doing all this. I couldn't recover from the workload, Everyone has their limits.
That was wicked!
LULZ!!! This video is so campy, but I'm glad you don't take yourself too seriously. I like the bloopers. AND GIT BIN!!!
hahahhhah, good thing the last guy didn't have more lines 😀
and get BIG
I now have an irresistible urge to high five someone and call them bro.
interesting last week I went to a fitness center and went into the weight room for the first time… bad idea. 2 days later I could barely move my arms. it was hard just to get dressed. when I tried flexing my biceps seemed to vanish.. it scared the shit out of me. and on the side of my arms there was swelling. almost as if the peak of my biceps moved in towards my chest… everything seems to be back to normal now but I thought I injured myself.. im scared to even start working out now.. plus being the only person lifting very low weights was embarrassing…
nick probably got bigger doing all those retakes lmao
Did I beat Olympus Iron to the comments!?!?!?!?
dude im laughing so hard at the bloopers right now. ppl in my office must be like wtf
train like a god? gods never train..
Was expecting more depth to it.
Im sorry… and get what?
I used to leave the gym after 1 hour, because I was afraid of cortisol cannabilizing muscle. Lmao it is all bullshit. I now train hard an hour and a half 5 days a week legs, push, pull, legs, upper body doing heavy compound movements and I am rarely sore, but I am getting stronger every week. I also do my cardio (sprints and jump rope) 3 days a week, stretch daily, and do mobility work. In addition, eat a lot and sleep well too and you will never overtrain. Overtraining is definitely individualized though. Like CT Fletcher said, "What is overtraining for you may be someone else's warm up." Seriously, just kill it in the gym.
Great stuff Scott! Short, sharp and simple 🙂
You forgot to mention the importance of getting big.
Thank you……
Awesome intro!
hello sir 🙂 can you give some tips on how one can loose the face fat? the chubby cheeks??
Good stuff and very funny at the end
Amen! Lol
No wonder they are so familiar…
It's Nick and Olympus
Watch videos on mike rashid.. (my idol)
Wasn't feeling the intro music, liked the old one better.
Dannngg Look at Scott doing pull ups like a BEAST!!!
lol was this meant to be like one of those 90's bodybuilding videos?
Good vid but change that intro its fricken too loud and dubstep is horrible…
HAHAAH these guys got a workout from making this vid
I fear opossums and.,.clowns
I do circut training 5 days a week from monday threw friday with 2sets and 5 reps of each always going heavy ( i do back chest trap shoulder triceps biceps and llegs is this healthy or am i overtraining .
PS i feel good.
Dat intro!
Wow my friend just told me i must be overtraining. I just started weight training 4weeks ago doing tabata and running after. I normally do 15-20 pullups(body weight training regime)but today i did 1 and struggled. Is he right is this what happens?
Gotta love the intro to this video pretty epic
Benching almost the weight of another person back-squatting, like give me a break xD lol.
Great video Scott, looking great ! thanks for all your help I'm seeing a lot of gains these past months, Your workouts are amazing.
someone was watching CT Fletcher videos lol
Lmfao "and get BIG" like 10 times at the end hahahaha
Hii scoot I train my leg 1in week because I like to overtrain so its that ok to overtrain
always always add more weight to my fcking max weight ,feel like in hell every minute lol