Am I overtrained

billyhead

Hi,

I have been feeling very tired and sluggish the last week and a half to 2 weeks. I train every day. It consists of cardio for at least an hour either of biking on a stationary bike, running for about 45mins to an hour or cross training in the gym (i.e using the stairmaster, rower, cross trainer).I try to mix it up. I also walk for nearly an hour each day into work and out i.e half an hour in an a half an hour out. Before work I do about 10 minutes of weight training or press ups using dumbells at home working my arms and shoulders. I have constant aches in my body on a regular basis, and am now not looking forward to training after work. I presume these symptons are sign of over training. My diet is what i consider to be quite good.
Its usually.
8am-Big bowl of porridge with one scoop of protein
11am-fruit and yougurt
2pm-2 slices of Wholewheat pitta bread with salmon and cheese
4pm-some nuts

7.30pm-8pm dinner which is usually pasta or rice or a seet potatoe with chicken/prawns or tuna and loads of vegetables.

10pm-Protein shake consiting of 2 scoops and milk

I also drink about two cups of coffee and 2 1/2 to 3 litres of water each day

BossArky

What kind of aches and pains?

I'd say take at least two days off. Read a book or learn how to say hello in 20 languages. When you get back to training you'll feel much better from your time off.

justsomebloke

truthfully I think you really need to ditch your current programme and build a new one from scratch as to be truthful it looks like you aren't actually training to accomplish anything at all. So set up some goals and then set up a programme that will actually help achieve those goals.

Also look into calculating your daily calorific intake and then working out how many a day you are currently taking in as from the look of it it looks like you aren't eating nearly enough

casey212

Have you not seen the Rocky films, you can never overtrain. No pain no gain, thats my motto.:D

celestial

The clue to the solution is in your post - 'I train every day'.

Who trains every day? Common sense should tell you that you need at least one day per week. Take it a bit easier on yourself. You might also find it helpful to take a week off completely and come back renewed and refreshed.

Shane190

casey212 wrote: »

Have you not seen the Rocky films, you can never overtrain. No pain no gain, thats my motto.:D

Of course you can overtrain. You have to give your body time to recover.

casey212

Shane190 wrote: »

Of course you can overtrain. You have to give your body time to recover.

There are different views on that. I take it that you do not rotate your routines to target different muscle groups, alternate cardio and weights and so on. Thats how I roll.

thirtyfoot

You could be bored. Do you do the same stuff every day? I have aches and pains after most sessions and I love it. A different ache and pain after each session in a week and a sign that I've trained hard the night before. Linford Christie spoke about that great feeling of getting up the next day after a hard session and barely been able to walk to the bathroom from his bedroom.

Maybe vary your sessions and structure in proper rest and restoration.

Shane190

Yes I rotate my routine quite regularly and train each muscle groups on different days. But what i am saying is that if I train my legs one day then I have to give them 2 or 3 days recovery time before i train them again.

casey212

Shane190 wrote: »

Yes I rotate my routine quite regularly and train each muscle groups on different days. But what i am saying is that if I train my legs one day then I have to give them 2 or 3 days recovery time before i train them again.

Thats a good method. I myself follow a few basic rules and thankfully have has no major injuries.

(I do tend to overwork the guns at times, but only because the burds love big guns:cool:)

g'em

casey212 wrote: »

(I do tend to overwork the guns at times, but only because the burds love big guns:cool:)

Quit it. It's a Fitness forum, not somewhere for you to lie about your sexual prowess. That's the second time you've referred to "burds", one more and you can add this as another forum you'll be banned from.

casey212

Your right, I have an atrocious habit of getting all macho when I enter discourses on fitness.