Ambition is a great thing of course! We get pumped and we go after what we want every chance we get, but it seems sometimes like we can never do enough. The question is though, are we doing too much? Here’s 6 signs of over training in the gym.
1. Trouble Sleeping At Night
Here’s usually where it starts. You get that weird feeling where you’re tired, but you can’t get your body to settle down. You might feel your heart racing like you’re on tons of caffeine. This is a result of excessive stress to the nervous system and hormone imbalance.
2. Increased Fatigue
This of course goes hand in hand with a lack of sleep, but is not exclusive to a simple bad night’s rest. This increased fatigue can last for an entire week depending on how long you’ve been over training and to what degree.
This type of fatigue doesn’t just feel like sleepiness, or muscle soreness. It feels more like complete exhaustion physically and even mentally.
3. Loss Of Appetite
Over training can disrupt your hormone balance to the point that it causes you to even lose your appetite. Your metabolism slows down drastically in order to dedicate more energy to re-establish homeostasis, which is the body’s natural balance.
4. Muscle Loss
For the body to repair and grow muscle, it has to be in a balanced state. Over training causes you to be in a state of chronic inflammation and this is what causes muscle loss.
5. Increased Body Fat
Not only does over training impede muscle gain, but it also can come coupled with an increase in body fat. Fat storage in the body comes from either stress, or poor diet, which ultimately stresses the body anyway.
6. Joint Pain & Injury
These two things are a huge indication that its time to lay off the grind for a bit. If you’re starting to feel new pains in your joints that you haven’t had before, you’re over training. If you ignore the signs, you run the risk of all kinds of injuries. These types of injuries are called over use in juries.
- Tennis elbow
- Runners knee
- Shin splints
- Shoulder impingement
These are some just to name a few. My advice is to slow it down now and get some deep tissue massages.
*Train from a place of self love, not from a place of frustration for where you are now.
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