Upper Body Workout

It's been a fairly busy day, but I still made time for a good upper body workout at the gym....Hammer Strength incline bench presses, incline DB flyes, seated cable rows and lat pulldowns.

~Feelin' Alive!~

TOPFIT Tips

Overtraining occurs when you train your body beyond its ability to recover. If your body cannot recover from the last workout then it will be unable to adapt and unable to grow. Symptoms of overtraining include:

• A higher-than-normal resting pulse
• Illnesses become more frequent and last longer than usual
• Muscle spasms while resting e.g. eyelid twitch etc.
• Shaky hands
• Loss of sleep
• Loss of appetite
• Unexpected and unexplained fatigue
• Unintended weight loss
• Very slow or non-existent gains in exercise poundage, or loss of strength and the use of reduced poundage in the gym.

Solution: If you are overtraining on your current routine, first take a few days or a week off to let your body recover, then cut back on the number of workout days per week, exercises and/or number of sets.