7 SIGNS OF OVERTRAINING
by Patrick Flaven
Overtraining for a long period of time is detrimental to your
results and more so your aggressiveness. Follow along to see if you fit the profile for any of these seven signs of overtraining and halt these problems while you are ahead.
1. Arms, Legs, Hands and Fingers shake and quiver without control after a workout. This happens because your glycogen stores were all used up and you trained past that point.
2. Your natural pulse rate is elevated during rest. 3 or 4
extra pulses
per minute or more is a sign you have been overtraining.
3. Consistent and aggravating muscle soreness that ceases to
get
better.
4. A decrease in strength levels, peaked in your bench press or
leg
press and cannot perform with the same weight as before.
5. Lack of a good Pump in the gym. Cannot seem to get the same
engorged
muscles you should be getting.
6. Irritableness, short tempered and extra sensitive to
anything hot or
cold, or even extra sensitive to heavy light or loud sounds.
7. Lack of aggression, feeling tired and sluggish. This
translates
directly to your performance in the gym.
If you are experiencing any of the 7 signs of overtraining you
must
stop it right away. Now that you know are, take additional steps
to
prevent this from happening in the future. Ideally, when you are
bodybuilding, you should train up to your personal threshold and
no
further.
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