You obviously are trying to get yourself in shape. If you aren’t spending hours in the gym doing intense weight training, you are probably not going to achieve your desired results, and may think about enhancing your program. However, keep in mind that you must not overtrain.
To avoid overtraining you need to make sure you give your body a break between workouts. The rest and break will help repair and beheld the muscle that is being broken down in overtraining.
Once you understand that when building muscle, muscle is breaking down, you will understand overtraining. You’re not building the muscle in the gym, really. When you are inside the gym you are actually breaking down muscle and producing small injuries to that particular muscle that your body must then heal and repair. When these injuries heal and repair, they heal and repair stronger than they were previously. The process that actually builds muscle is that your body, while you rest, will repair the muscle tissue that is broken down during the workout.
When you overtraining, you’re not giving your body the rest it needs in between workouts to properly build and repair. What this means is that you’re actually preventing muscle from building. Worse than that, though, you’re actually hurting yourself in a number of other ways, too. Look for these symptoms to see whether or not you’re overtraining. If you are, you can take steps to improve this and get back on the muscle building track.
There are steps that you can take, if this is the case, to improve it and get back on track building muscle. You’ll notice that before anything else. Overtraining is an intensity of exercising that often shows results in fatigue. If your workout includes overtraining it is likely that you will notice other symptoms as well.
Not allowing proper recovery time between workout sessions will cause your testorone levels to decline.
It’s hard to believe but it might even make you gain weight. You might gain weight you don’t want to, in the form of fat. That’s because if you keep training, not only will you be breaking down muscle without building it back up, and muscle burns fat, but you also increase your levels of cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone that makes your body want to retain fat, especially in stomach.
When you overtrain, your immune system reacts by becoming weaker. That’s because it’s trying to handle that your body is in a state of constant inflammation from damaged, sore muscles. So if you find yourself getting colds and flu more easily, slow down. A good bodybuilding regimen should make you less susceptible to colds and flu, not more so.
Last but not least, this needs to be repeated, that when you overtrain, you will actually lose muscle, not gain it. As this is precisely what you wish to avoid, what you need is a solid bodybuilding routine that will help you develop the muscle you want without the unfortunate symptoms.
A bodybuilding routine should alternate periods of intense workouts with rest periods. You should lift challenging weights three or four times a week, and give yourself any days off that you need. It is a good idea to do some light cardio on the days you are not lifting, however you need to keep in mind it’s important to rest your muscles after such heavy duty lifting. They need time to recover and to repair. This will help you bulk up in the best way, with muscle.
Even while resting your body can’t recover and build new tissue unless it has certain elements it needs. That means that nutrition is just as important as rest is. Instead of indulging in potato chips and other types of junk food, you should be reaching for more healthy alternatives such as lean proteins, fruits and vegetables and whole grains. You should choose good nutritious calories that will make you feel full, and will aid your body in repairing itself between workouts. Do this, and soon you will not only see results but will feel better, too.
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