Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

BEYOND BRAWN
c. Gross overtraining
14.22 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.
14.23 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
14.24 You may be performing other types of exercise on top of your weight training.
Moderate aerobic work should not impede your gains in the gym, so
long as you set about it properly, and assuming your weight-training program
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.
14.25 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.
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Do not wait until you get buried in full-blown overtraining before
you appreciate the devastating impact it has, and how, on an accumulative
basis, it can cost you years of your training life.
How to react to signs of overtraining
14.26 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
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