Beyond Brawn - The Insider's Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle && Might

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c. Gross overtraining

. Gross overtraining, even if you are using good exercise style, will wear you

down, deliver injuries, and make you prone to infections. is is not just a

product of excessive training volume in each workout. It is also a product of

how often you train and how your exercises are spread over the week. Even

a good abbreviated program of a low volume of exercise can fail if you divide

the exercises up inappropriately for you.

. Shoulder and lower back injuries are among the most common in the gym.

To discover why, look at how the shoulders and lower back are battered,

either directly or indirectly, on conventional training routines. Even when

using abbreviated workouts, design your routines so that your shoulders

and lower back are not pounded each time you work out.

d. The contribution of other forms of exercise

. You may be performing other types of exercise on top of your weight train-

ing. Moderate aerobic work should not impede your gains in the gym, so

long as you set about it properly, and assuming your weight-training pro-

gram is sound. In fact, moderate aerobic work will improve your overall

physical conditioning. is will increase your ability to train well with the

weights and recover from workouts. But overdo the aerobic work, and you

will kill your progress in the gym.

. If you are seriously into other athletic activities you will make gains in the

gym much harder if not impossible to produce. While your body’s ability

to recuperate from exercise and make progress can be improved, there are

limits. e source of your overtrained state with the weights may rest with

the other exercise you do, and thus you need to make changes there if you

want to progress with your resistance training.

How to react to signs of overtraining

. If you are alert to the symptoms of overtraining, and become aware as soon

as you are starting to overdo your training, you have the opportunity to nip

Do not wait until you get buried in full-blown overtraining before

you appreciate the devastating impact it has, and how, on an accu-

mulative basis, it can cost you years of your training life.

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