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Am I overtraining?

  • 12-06-2008 3:09pm
    #1
    lifofifo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    Here's my story. I started my fitness regime 3 months ago. I've doing a 7.5 mile brisk walk (i do it under an hour and 40 minutes) plus a 40 minute strength training session (with 7.5 Kg dumbells) everyday for the past 3 months. My question is, am i doing it too much? Shoudl i be cutting down on this routine?


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  • #2
    PCB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭PCB


    one word: no

    Why do you think you are overtraining? you male or female?what are you trying to achieve?


  • #3
    lifofifo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭lifofifo


    I'm a male. For the past couple of weeks I've been having these niggling little injuries. I was browsing through the web and was wondering was it because of overtraining or not...


  • #4
    PCB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭PCB


    lots of people on the boards wil be able to help you but first we need to know a couple of things:

    1. Age
    2. Height
    3. Weight
    4. Diet
    5. Training goals


  • #5
    lifofifo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭lifofifo


    I probably should have given some info about me before pestering everyone with questions. I'm 28 years old, male and 5 feet 6 inches tall. At teh start of this year i was 192 pounds. But over the past 5 and a half month i lost a few pounds and currently i'm down to 144 pounds. I started slowly for the first couple months. At first i sorted out my diet. I cut out junk foods completely, started to eat healthy food (with the right mixture of carbs, fat and protein) and started doing very light cardio. I started off with 15 minutes brisk walk and then gradually increased my work out. Once i was doing 7.5 miles a day i started doing strength training as well (which was about a 3 months ago). My initial goal was to lose the extra weight as it was starting effect my personal well being. My cholesterol was way off the chart. Now everything is back to okay (or as my doctor had put it "it's depressingly normal"). When i started off in January i didn't think that i would be able to lose any weight at all. Now that i've been able to do it for few months (plus i have raelly started to enjoy being fit), i have decided that i'll try to lose 20 more pounds. I'm not in a hurry (i don't have a deadline in mind) to do that. But now that i have these annoying little niggles, i was wondering whether am i doing it too much or what....


  • #6
    celestial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭celestial


    Are you seriously saying you've weight trained for 40 mins every day for the past 90 days? Every day?! I'm not surprised you're starting to get some niggling injuries!


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  • #7
    lifofifo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭lifofifo


    celestial wrote: »
    Are you seriously saying you've weight trained for 40 mins every day for the past 90 days? Every day?! I'm not surprised you're starting to get some niggling injuries!

    Yeap!! Except for a single day when i was away...


  • #8
    dave80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭dave80


    celestial wrote: »
    Are you seriously saying you've weight trained for 40 mins every day for the past 90 days? Every day?! I'm not surprised you're starting to get some niggling injuries!

    everyday for 90 days is not good at all, but when your doing them with 7.5kg dumbbells it isnt that bad, you should prob take every 3rd of 4th day off though


  • #9
    PCB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭PCB


    my brief advice is take two rest days from the cardio and join a gym where you will be lifting more than 7.5kg. You are a grown man...in the proper environment you should be able to lift significantly more which will increase your muscle size, which will reduce your body fat %. you are a beginner...do 3 days in the gym on a basic program and however many days cardio you like and from what ive seen you are quite dedicated you will see results in no time with alot less injuries:D


  • #10
    lifofifo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭lifofifo


    dave80 wrote: »
    everyday for 90 days is not good at all, but when your doing them with 7.5kg dumbbells it isnt that bad, you should prob take every 3rd of 4th day off though

    I was thinking of doing the same!!!


  • #11
    pvt.joker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭pvt.joker


    lifofifo wrote: »
    Yeap!! Except for a single day when i was away...


    Muscle recovers and grows only when it is resting. You should take every 2nd day off if you're doing intense training and working the same muscle groups the whole time.


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  • #12
    dave80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭dave80


    you should prob do something like this if you join a gym

    Mon: Weight Training
    Tuesday: Cardio
    Wednesday: Weight Training
    Thursday: Cardio
    Friday: Weight Training
    Saturday: Cardio

    Weight training could be split Mon/Pull, Wed/Legs, Fri/Push and you could stick to your current cardio on tues, thurs, sat.


  • #13
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Fair balls for losing the weight man!! 48lbs is a lot to shift!

    Whether it's the right way to do it or not, 90 straight days of training takes some amount of discipline.


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