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In the gym too much?

  • 11-11-2008 9:28pm
    #1
    Bicky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭


    I am a 26yo male, around 90kg.
    I am unemployed at the moment and i am going to the gym every day. It keeps me sane and wastes time and energy.
    I usually do 40+ mins on the crosstrainer and afterwards i do an hour(or more) of weights including squats, bench press etc, and some body weight exercises like pull ups, push ups etc.
    I was never very fit before and although i have been doing sporadic aerobic workouts the last two months, i have only started doing the same thing every day for the last three weeks. I don't go on a Sunday.
    I have been advised that i am overdoing it and should leave my muscle time to recover between workouts.
    Thing is that i dont feel as though i am. If i am lifting a weight and feel any muscle is not right then i will stop. My muscles can be sore in the evening but it is a good feeling and the energy i waste stave's off the unemployment depression.
    At the moment i dont really have a goal of bulking up. I would just like to tone up and become fit.
    Am i overdoing it?


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  • #2
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Are you doing a full body workout every day? Squats bench pull ups deads every time? How long have you been going every day? Perhaps you could do cardio one day and weights the next and vary it that way. If you don't feel like you are over doing it, and if you are eating properly, they you probably aren't.


  • #3
    celestial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭celestial


    Bicky wrote: »
    I am a 26yo male, around 90kg.
    I am unemployed at the moment and i am going to the gym every day. It keeps me sane and wastes time and energy.
    I usually do 40+ mins on the crosstrainer and afterwards i do an hour(or more) of weights including squats, bench press etc, and some body weight exercises like pull ups, push ups etc.
    I was never very fit before and although i have been doing sporadic aerobic workouts the last two months, i have only started doing the same thing every day for the last three weeks. I don't go on a Sunday.
    I have been advised that i am overdoing it and should leave my muscle time to recover between workouts.
    Thing is that i dont feel as though i am. If i am lifting a weight and feel any muscle is not right then i will stop. My muscles can be sore in the evening but it is a good feeling and the energy i waste stave's off the unemployment depression.
    At the moment i dont really have a goal of bulking up. I would just like to tone up and become fit.
    Am i overdoing it?

    +1 to what brianthebard said, if you have to ask then you probably aren't - but the key point is the part in bold - you're only doing this for 3 weeks. If you're progressively increasing the intensity and weight being lifted etc come back in 3 months and see how you are... The key factor though is listening to your body - there is a difference between feeling tired and feeling worn out and truly fatigued. As a rule of thumb though I would be leaving a day between weight workouts most weeks. Just because you aren't feeling worn out right now or aren't suffering injury now doesn't mean you won't succumb to it in the future if you are overdoing it.


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