How can you tell if your over training?

jarednuzzi

So like the topic says .... I've been doing a lot of cardio and strength training for the last 6 months or so. During that time I steadily increased my pace and distance jogging and increase my weight and reps with strenght training. I feel like I've hit a wall in the last month and don't seem to be progressing like I was before. I've read a lot of topics about over training and I'm concerned that I may be doing just that.

I exercise 7 days a week. I do strength 4-5 times a week and I jog 5-6 times a week. I may be able to up my weights again in strength but I'm doing 3-5 sets of 15 reps and frankly I don't really want to increase the weight anymore because I would need to buy more weight and I'm concerned about hernia issues since I've already had two surgeries. I use to take more days off and get sore but I basically don't get sore anymore. Somedays I feel like I'm light on energy and just feel weak but I don't even get those that frequently anymore. When I was big on strenght training before I had full free access to a good college gym and just kept increasing weight. I'm doing more weight now but don't really feel or look as strong as I did before (of course that might be because I'm still 30 lbs heavier).

Don't know if this matters but I recently turned 32 I'm 6'1" and about 218.

Has anybody gone through anything similiar? Should I increase weight again? Is there a limit?

TpocketT60

Jesus thats a lot of exercising. A lot of this depends on your diet though.. if you are eating enough to keep up with that much calorie burn and working different muscle groups in your strength training, you may be fine lifting 4-5 times a week. What are your goals though? It sounds like you are more focused on gaining strength, in which case you are doing way too much running. And when you say 3-5 sets of 15 reps do you mean 15 reps per set? That is some really high rep workouts that will not do much to help you gain strength. You need to up that weight to something you can do 5-8 reps a set if you want to see any kind of significant strength gains.

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