In order to keep your training flowing and moving forward, ideally you should try to recognize the early
onset symptoms of overtraining so you can learn how to avoid them before they become so overwhelmingly physical and require far longer to recover from.
For more signs that you're overdoing it at the gym — and tips on how to scale back — check out our guide to
the symptoms of overtraining.
Symptoms of overtraining are overall irritability and tiredness, loss of appetite, lack of motivation, lack of mental focus, prolonged periods of recovery etc. 8.
This is why it's very important to notice
the symptoms of overtraining early on and give your body one to two weeks of much - needed rest.
On the training front, many athletes who experience
symptoms of overtraining are so burned out that the only time they feel good is while training.
Symptoms of overtraining / overreaching are common with this approach because you're more likely to get insufficient recovery between training sessions of the same muscle groups.
I think we know what to do — inflammation seems to be key (as it often is in general health), and avoiding the things that cause chronic inflammation generally seems to take care of many of
the symptoms of overtraining.
With 25 percent of Ironman finishers showing abnormally low sodium, and my observations that many more endurance athletes show some signs and
symptoms of overtraining — which can adversely affect the HPA axis — the number of individuals vulnerable to this problem may be quite high.
This article stuck out to me because I was experiencing many of
the symptoms of overtraining.