Whether you’re an athlete training for a competitive event, or a regular exerciser working out to improve fitness, there is a chance that you may unwittingly sabotage your efforts by training too frequently or too vigorously without adequate rest. This has been a long-held belief in the health community since the Greek physician Hippocrates famously stated, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”The same could also be said for performance, as successful training is the result of subjecting the body to stress in the form of exercise, while simultaneously avoiding the combination of excessive overload plus inadequate recovery. When a fitness seeker does not sufficiently respect the balance between training and recovery, symptoms of overtraining can occur. This state of decline is called overtraining syndrome (OTS), which includes fatigue, performance decline and mood disturbances. Surprisingly, there is little consensus among sports medicine researchers as to the assessment and diagnosis of this disorder due to lack of available scientific evidence. However, researchers agree that the best way to deal with OTS is to prevent it from occurring. Here are three practical suggestions for avoiding OTS based on a position paper from the European College of Sport Science and the American College of Sports Medicine (Meeusen et al., 2013).
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TOPFIT Daily Activities --- Deadlifts
I took a break from the trails today and only made time for a workout of sumo and standard deadlifts.....it was definitely enough to get my attention today.
~Feelin' Alive!~
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