Overtraining

**Sonny** · 09-17-2007, 02:49 PM

What are YOUR typical symptoms of overtraining? Personally I never really get the mood swings, lack of sleep, soreness etc.?

However I almost always end up catching a bad cold when I'm overtraining.

woogie12 · 09-17-2007, 02:55 PM

Soreness and my eating habits get bad for a day or two.

Plus I lose my drive.

Jackson81 · 09-17-2007, 02:55 PM

Ya I get sick and start getting horrible head aches. Lose my appetite and everything...

Jubacat · 09-17-2007, 03:02 PM

After weeks of hard workouts, my elbows will get too sore. (so now I have adopted Ross's idea of taking a week of more relaxed training)

Besides that, after a lack of sleep and pushing too hard in workouts, that all adds up to making me feel run down and sick.

Brendon Katz · 09-17-2007, 03:17 PM

my numbers drop, my chest clogs up, i get the runs, and im fuckin pissed off all the time (as opposed to normal, when im not pissed off during sleep).

**Sonny** · 09-17-2007, 03:23 PM

I usually get a day or two of nasty joint pain and then I get a horrible cold.

Last year I wanted to see how hard I could push myself so I lifted 6 days a week and went as hard as I could on the bike for 60-90 minutes EVERY day. I'm not talking about a light stroll, I mean I was fucking going as hard as I could, throwing in some intervals and all that. After a couple weeks of that, I got brutally ill with the flu.

Revok · 09-17-2007, 03:46 PM

Never anything serious. Somehow I haven't been ill (aside from the likes of creatine shits) in about ten years, and I've never gotten injured beyond a light wrist or neck tweak. Probably my only indicator of going too hard is mental burnout - I just stop caring for about week and pursue something else until the fire comes back. Oh and sometimes I get restless legs and want to pound them with a lumphammer just to kill that electric feeling in the muscles.

**Sonny** · 09-17-2007, 03:56 PM

I hate that feeling of being exhausted and tired but not being able to sleep due to the jimmy legs.

heritagemma · 09-17-2007, 05:21 PM

my exercise drives takes a dive. i have to force myself to go the gym. when i am normal, i would think and love to go to the the gym.

Dan's Knuckles · 09-17-2007, 06:27 PM

The classic symptoms are mood changes, decrease in performance, change in resting heart rate. The ones you can check for in a lab have to do with hormonal and metabolic changes in response to exercise and recovery.