As usual, trainer extraordinaire Dutch Lowy has hit the nail on the head … overtraining?
He lists 8 potential examples in his overtraining post. I am posting the ones that pertain to me:
- Your _____ has started bothering you when you do ____. (insert body part and specific movement) Shoulder & rotator cuff / anything & pushups & yoga
- You don’t sleep well even though you are really worn out. (we could also blame this on a change in sleeping situation since I moved, and that my blackout curtains don’t black things out as well as one would have hoped)
- You are in a constant state of soreness, even after 2 days off where you only ran a little and did some interval work but it was short… (does running the stairs once a day and taking the dog for walks count?)
- Training is not fun. Motivation is Low. (See this sad-sack post … I seem a lil lost)
Erm. But is it possible to have been overtraining two months ago and still feeling the effects of it? And how exactly does one go about un-overtraining? Undertraining, if you will?
Or more of that listening-to-your-body junk that no one is very good at?
I’m off to play at the river … after biking down to the library … noImdefinitelynotovertrainingwhatonearthwouldmakeyouthinkthat?
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how does one go about ‘un-overtraining’?
haha… Good question!
find a coach that understands what volume is necessary for you individually, your specific goals and knows when to MAKE you rest.
Thanks, Dutch! I’m honored to have you comment.
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