Are You Training Too Much? | Signs & Tips To Spot Overtraining

Have you upped your training over the last few months? It’s a fine line between getting exceptionally fit and overtraining, one that you don’t want to cross. Heather is here with the help of Dr. Jamie Pringle with warning signs to help prevent you from making that mistake and ending up overtrained!

Some of us have lost motivation and are just exercising to keep fit, others have gone to the other extreme and upped their training over the last few months. Is that you? If so could you be overtraining?

It’s a fine line between getting exceptionally fit and overtraining, one that you don’t want to cross. Heather is here with the help of Dr Jamie Pringle with warning signs to help prevent you from making that mistake and ending up overtrained!

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Are you including more training volume or less at the moment? Let us know 👇

[mtldragon]

One of the best signs of overtraining for me is impulsiveness. Little control of eating, poor choices of words when conversing, and making bad life choices.

[thedailytri]

Its so easy for me to over train especially when you feel like missing a workout will hurt you but In all reality it could be the best thing you could do for yourself

[radders]

I've been battling overtraining for quite a few years now. And although I look forward to a rest day, when it comes, It's the worst day of the week!

[PetreDiaconescu]

I'm not training for anything in particular, I'm just addicted to running... And sometimes I over do it. It's nice to see a video like this to understand even more how important is the recovery.

[johnnyb]

I've been training heavily 6-7 days a week for the last 4 years. Something I've noticed is my craving for sugars when I've gone over the line. My body screams for ANYTHING sweet usually 4-5 hours after I've pushed too far. Has anyone else noticed this? FYI my diet is pretty close to dialed in. ✌️🇨🇦✌️

[ting.]

Im overtrained. I feel weak and not able to reach my goals anymore. This makes me emotional since working out has been my daily routine. Coach told me to rest. Now Im taking the much needed break, creatimg a recovery plan and reminding myself to take it easy or else I would take longer than it should. Rooting for allovertrained peeps, we'll get thru this!!!

[sippie]

I was very over trained for my first OD triathlon. I did the training fine but in the red, every training. So after the OD I just crashed. Then got a good coach that explained that I should go slow before I go fast. And now I’m pretty much in full control. With little slip ups that I correct during my plan.

TLDR: learn to go slow

[taylor]

Always found the more helpful phrase is under recovering rather than over trained

[wunderlichdrive]

My challenge is knowing how hard to push myself on hard days. I am nearly 55 and I have been improving my running pace very nicely and it has made me very ambitous. But, this has led me to push my body over the edge on hard days and getting hurt. Clearly, I need to do more strength training, but I also think that folks at my age just simply don’t recover as quickly, meaning that we need to be more conservative than what the 10% rule prescribes. Plus, we have to be careful about increases in intensity, not just duration.

[jamiefuhrman]

This is definitely something I question about myself. My biggest struggle is knowing how to take a recovery day or period without feeling like crap. Would really appreciate advice or a video on how to best take some time off while keeping your mindset and positive and without feeling like your training will suffer

[gingeral]

I have definitely fallen into the overtraining bracket lately, I always tell my team to rest and appropriate the training to their lifestyle - I most definitely should listen to my own advice, very timely video thank you

[KitagumaIgen]

During my competitive period the sign of overtraining was sleeping-problems, when I started to have problems falling asleep during my hardest ground-training period I learned to take a couple of days off and scale the amount down a notch. I see that as a fortunate first sign since as far as I understand this it was a very early sign...

[sebastianaustein]

I started to include an extra session into my training week and cut off half a rest day for it. To make up for it I bought a GTN-shirt which I wear to enhance my sleep. And what shall I say....it works! Seriously though, I don't have experienced any (additional) issues yet .
Very informative video. Thank you for it.

[igormiller]

For me, I pay attention to my reflexes and reaction time. For example, theres a road where I turn on that has lots of traffic. On days I feel great, I just turn and go and have awareness where cars are. On days Im exhausted or overtrained, my reflexes are slower missing many opportunities to turn. On many studies, it's shown slower reaction times correlate with overtraining. So I pay attention to that, better reaction means green light, bad reaction times, yellow or even red light. Another tip for you runners looking to train competitively, split your sessions. For example, rather than doing a 10 mile run, do a 5 in AM and 5 in early PM. Your body releases hormones to heal itself up to an hour after each session. Same workout with double the recovery.

[asoler]

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[zyghom]

I learned to listen to my body: both brain and muscles - it works!

[pojepoje]

3-5 days train, 2-3 days active recovery. my magic numbers these past few years.

[ngdawgs]

I just love y’all!! Exactly the question I’ve been rolling around in my head. I feel exhausted, but I hate taking days off.. instead I just drag my tail through a workout. I know I’m doing this to myself, so this is a good reminder to let my body rest to really see improvements.

[raminazmoodeh]

When I'm on my rest day, I stress out and do more working out even though I feel sick from doing it. My brain will always tell me that I'm being lazy, so I do more and more. I feel stressed and tired.