Overtraining

What most people neglect is the idea of recovery for ligaments and tendons. It's not all about muscular or CNS recovery.

If you don't intelligently program your workouts, you can end up with a kind of RSI. It's not always overtraining in the sense of "practical programming" (the Rip book which delves into this extensively), which is what most lifters think of when they read overtraining.

I was massively into Kung Fu for years and learned the hard way how recovery is important for joints, tendons, ligaments. It goes double where the activity/sport/exercise may involve regular impact ie MA/Boxing/Rugby/etc. I also think running is a massive culprit due to repetitive impact on the knees and hip alignment issues if you do it for long enough without sensible recovery.

Good point. I switched from running 3 or 4 times a week to jump rope 3 or 4 times a week for cardio since I can't jump rope nearly as long as I run. I also can't do it very long continuously so it ends up being more of an interval workout (30 secs jumping, 30 secs rest, repeat for up to 30 minutes total or up to 15 minutes of jumping). I thought this would be better/easier on my body since the workout is shorter than running and I kept injuring myself running. As of 6 weeks ago, I also do 3 days a week of Body By You, which is You Are Your Own Gym for women, and it kicks my butt every time. I continue to progress in both jumping (I'm up to 65 jumps in each 30 sec interval from 50) and in the strength categories in this program. I'm losing weight slowly and inches. I just can't stand feeling so awful all the time. Used to feel like a rock star after I'd work out, tired, but awesome. Now I just feel awful and I'm so irritable all the time. And I feel like I'm starving so I end up going over my calorie limits (1700) anyway.

Overtraining isn't something that most of the people on this website are in danger of. It takes a lot more than you would think to reach a state of overtraining.

FACT ^ This original post will be harmful to far more people than it will be helpful.....This post will be used as an excuse to be lazy. I have excuse vision...i see excuses before they arrive.....Cant argue with results......Suck it.....

I see your point. But whether it's overtraining, underfeeding, or something else entirely, if the points in the original article I posted apply to someone, I would think making some sort of change to what they're doing is in order, if the goal is to get to a normal weight, increase fitness, and become healthier overall. Spending months being sick, injured, and exhausted shouldn't be a requirement to achieve those goals. People can find always find excuses not to work out.

Thanks for the info! You should probably mention somewhere though that those aren't your own words in addition to providing the link at the bottom. Otherwise it sounds like YOU wrote the article and then are linking people to more information from the original source. When in fact you just copied and pasted. Which is fine! But should be mentioned.

I thought that was implied, sorry.