How to Avoid Over Training?
I often write articles about how you are supposed to train and how you shouldn’t give in to being lazy. But I rarely mention something about when you are supposed to back off and take a rest!
As I’ve mentioned before, I have a pretty rich experience, when it comes to training mistakes! I had periods in my past, when I trained every single day, without taking a day off for months! It is not necessary to mention that I never got satisfying results, doing this- neither with my appearance, nor with the functionality of my body!
I remember, when I started practicing swimming, We trained twice a day, and we had workouts every day- Monday, through Saturday and Sunday was supposed to be a rest day… but not for me- I used to go to the gym!
Nowadays this sounds absurd, but it is a fact- I’ve done it and I notice that a lot of people, who work out make the same mistake!
Sometimes this is a result of the big desire to achieve our goal, accompanied with not enough information on how to actually do it the right way!
More doesn’t always mean better, and in this case this is a fact!
With time, I found out that if I keep on working out for longer periods, every single day, with big intensity, exhausting my body during every training session, I (more…)