Thursday, January 27, 2011
Overtraining part 2
My continuation on overtraining syndrome. Symptoms of overtraining can be, fatigue, moody, altered sleep paterns, depression, loss of desire to workout, sick more often, persistent muscle soreness, increase of injuries and the one I need to get is, loss of appetite. One of our best tools to gage this is your morning pulse. Get a baseline of your morning heartrate for a week or so by checking it first thing in the morning, before you get out of bed. After establishing your average, before rising heartrate, you see a 5% increase, go easy that day. If you see a 10% increase take at least one day off. Over the years I have had everyone of the above symptoms. If I would have listened to what my body was telling me, I could have avoided the down time. Just food for thought. I ran 3.58 miles and did 45 minutes of Insanity for a calorie burn of 998 yesterday and my morning pulse was 58. I am still good to go. Lets all workout and make this a lifetime commitment
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Well the funny thing is that I read and wrote on your blog but totally spaced writing on my blog. Oh well, I made up for it today. I always try to listen to my body and on the days that I need to take it easy I do. I do have a hard time not working out when I get into it so when that happens I take it slow at the gym that day. Maybe instead of running I just go for a walk to work up a sweat and stretch out my body. It has worked for me in the past. No matter what happens during the week I always take Sundays off to recuperate. Keep it going. Love ya.
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