Monday 16 January 2012

No rest will be wicked!

Here is FF2F's first Blast from Mr PT.
---- We all see and hear the sayings about pushing yourself to the limit, but how far is too far? When does regular training and exercise become overtraining?
Overtraining is a detrimental and potentially dangerous situation where your body cannot recover to the point at which they can continue to make gains, instead the body can even decline and suddenly you lose weeks of hard work.
Physical exercise and shaping your body can be addicting but it's vital to understand that doing weights every day of the week will not give you instant results, only with the correct diet and recovery can you begin to see the body change.

So along with a decline in performance. Overtraining can also lead to:
- Fatigue/Muscle soreness
- Mood swings and/or Depression
- Loss of motivation to workout or do anything
- Loss of appitite
- Vulnerable to illness
- Increased injury potential

So having gone through the dangers, what you can do to help rid yourself of overtraining is to simply either stop working out until you feel normal or ready enough to train at same intensity or dropping intensity down to maintain form but still get enough recovery to begin training at full intensity. So go hard and get results, but manage yourself in a safe way.
Mr PT ----
I couldn't agree more, you can push yourself too far if you try, and this has a burning the candle at both ends effect. So heed the warning and make sure you give your body good rest time.

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