Am I doing too much?

sozbox

I weight train 3 times a week, compound movements, pull ups etc to a 5X5 routine, I also play squash for 40 mins 4 times a week.

I take Sunday's off but other days I could be weight training at 6am and on the squash court at 6pm.

I feel I may be doing too much which may hinder my goals of toning up? What do you think?

Nervous Wreck

As long as you're eating well and sleeping enough, you're grand. If you're feeling strain, fatigue etc. then you need to change something but that something isn't necessarily your physical activity.

size5

from the outset looks like its too much-However, it depends on you goals-if its strength your goal the squash is too much. However if your enjoying everything and life is good, eating and sleeping well stick with it. But answer your question "what is my goal?"

GalwayGrrrrrl

I don't think it is too much- as long as you are not too tired to do your day job too. If you start getting niggles of pain or are very tired then ease off a bit. Is you job sedentary?

Mellor

If you are sleeping ok, not injured it constantly site than you are fine.
"Doing too much" is more about intensity than the number of times you train.

sozbox

Goal is get stronger and improve my physique, I've seen great progress the last couple of weeks, my diet has been overhauled to meet the training needs.

I work a desk job and have had a few days in work though where I've felt very tired for an hour or so, not so much 3pm slump tired more like I need to sleep now tired. I get 7 hrs sleep and never wake up feeling tired so I know it's not lack of sleep.

Few niggles of pain too now and then but that could be due to going from zero to 6 training sessions a week pretty quickly.

Mellor

sozbox wrote: »

Few niggles of pain too now and then but that could be due to going from zero to 6 training sessions a week pretty quickly.

I do 6-8 session a week without issue, 6 is typical, 8 exceptional. But I worked up to that workload. And not every session is max intensity. Some might be shorter, other are lighter, and occasionally something completely different like flexibility training.


Did you go from start training squash AND weights at the same time. Or were you doing one before the other.
As long as you are sleeping ok, and eating right you should be fine. It's ok to be tired when training hard.

sozbox

Went from zero to weight training and diet change and added in the squash sessions after four weeks.