Information vs. Application
This little article is being driven a bit by someone who is either trolling my comments (badly) or just really really really dumb. His comments have basically been ‘reading about ur dogs is boring, pls post more information about fat loss’. I also got one that said ‘pls post more fat loss info, I gained weight over X-mas’. Like I said, trolling or stupid as hell; it doesn’t matter which and often the line between the two is very very thin.
Fundamental Principles Versus Minor Details
As I’ve written about in a previous article How Detail Oriented Do You Need to Be, with the advent of the Internet (along with other forms of constantly running media) people are absolutely overwhelmed with information, much of it dealing with what can only be termed completely irrelevant details. That is, stuff that just isn’t likely to make an iota of difference to anything in the real world. I think the reason for this trend is that writing about the basics and the fundamentals all the time isn’t sexy or interesting. It certainly doesn’t sell magazines.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 8
Ok, this is going to be long but I’m determined to wrap this up today so I can write about some other stuff on Friday. Today I want to look at some of the different methods that have been used in an attempt to monitor and/or diagnose overtraining to catch it before it happens and then finish up by looking at what to do if overtraining occurs (even if you did your best to prevent it).
Overtraining, Overeaching and all the Rest Part 7
What I want to do to finish up today is to first look at some ways to monitor for signs of overtraining (to stop problems before they start), with my focus being on methods that are reasonably easy to administer. That is to say, while the ultimate determination of overtraining is a drop in performance, it’s always better to stop problems before they start then try to fix them after they happen. Finally, in what may rather surprisingly be the shortest part of the whole series, I’ll talk about what to do to ‘fix’ overtraining after it’s happened.
Overtraining, Overeaching and all the Rest Part 6
I finished by listing a handful of common symptoms of overtraining with the list deliberately meant to demonstrate that some of the symptoms appear to be relegated to muscle adn the others to the brain or more central parts of the body. I’ll pick up there today by looking at another common distinction of overtraining ‘types’ and then look a bit more at what ’causes’ overtraining to try to tie all of this together.
Overtraining, Overeaching and all the Rest Part 5
Having finally worked through my rather tedious definition of overtraining in Overtraining and Overeaching Part 1, Part 2 Part 3 and Part 4, I want to get into a few more details and some actually applied information. Today I want to look at some more issues revolving around overtraining, specifically the idea of different ‘types’ of overtraining along with looking at a bit more physiological level to what ’causes’ it to occur. On Friday in what should be the final part, I’ll talk about some monitoring methods and tools along with some strategies to help prevent overtraining in the first place.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 4
Today, finally, I want to wrap up looking at the actual definition above and then I’ll move into some more practical stuff about various methods to keep track of overtraining/overreaching, how to avoid it, that sort of thing. If I’m optimistic, I’ll wrap this up today. Who out there is willing to make a bet?
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 3
Having examined the details of performance decrement/underperformance syndrome in Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 2, I want to back furhter up the definition and look at the idea of the balance between training load and recovery being the root of the issue (at least at a global level). I also want to make the point that explicit training and recovery is not all that needs to be considered here. Finally, I’ll also look at the idea of underrecovery as a bigger issue than overtraining per se.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 2
In Part 1 I examined the issue of time-frame (e.g. overtraining vs. overreaching) as well as the idea of overtraining loads being specific to a given athlete. Today I want to continue examining the details of that definition, primarily by looking at the idea of what (at a global level) causes overtraining. Specifically I want to look at the idea of the balance between training load and recovery being the root of the issue; I’ll also look at the idea of underrecovery as a bigger issue than overtraining per se.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 1
Since the 1980′s, when everybody tried to follow the drug-fueled training models of the Eastern Block Countries, a constant cry and fear is that of ‘overtraining’. People throw around the term in the most interesting of ways and most of those ways are incorrect. Essentially ‘overtraining’ has come to be synonymous with ‘I got kind of tired’ which is not what it means.
