You've Been Lied To About Overtraining
Has anyone ever told you that you're overtraining? It seems to be one of the favorite things to do for the so called Internet muscle building and fat loss experts. Those same so called experts will tell you that working a muscle more than once per week is overtraining. I guess they've never met the huge powerlifters and amazingly strong Olympic lifters that routinely work a muscle more than once per week... not to mention the many natural bodybuilders who work a muscle group more than once per week.
I cannot take it any more!!! No one can tell anyone they are overtraining without knowing much more about the person, their weight training program, their diet, their sleep habits, the stress in their life and much more. The nonsense must stop now.
Those so called Internet experts cost me years and years of my time, money, and effort. I could have made much faster progress if I wouldn't have taken their advice. I built my website and this newsletter to get the truth out there to as many people as possible. I don't want you to go through the same crap that I went through.
Why Someone Doesn't Know If You're Overtraining...
No one can look at your weight training program and tell you that you're overtraining or that you're doing too much. Why is this? Because there are too many factors that go into the overtraining equation. Every single person out there is different. Two people can do the exact same thing... One may overtrain while the other may not. We are individuals with different lives. No one can tell you that you're overtraining!
Here are just a few of the factors that affect whether or not you are overtraining...
1) Hydration
2) Nutrition and Diet
3) Cardiovascular Exercise
4) Program Adjustments
5) Intensity of Weight Training
6) Weight Lifting Frequency
7) Pre and Post Workout Diet
8) Supplementation
9) Rest
10) Stress in Your Life
11) Traits Passed Down from Your Parents
12) Level of Conditioning
The factors affecting recovery from workouts that I've listed above are still only a few... The list goes on and on. Your entire life and what you do each and every day affects your recovery from workouts and your muscle building and fat burning results. No one will ever be able to tell you that you're overtraining. It's something you're going to have to watch out for yourself.
Did you know that you could workout 7 days per week for years and not overtrain? All you would have to do is start out easy, keep intensity low, increase your conditioning, and continue to increase workload and intensity as your body adapts to the increased workout load. Now I don't recommend 7 days per week... I just wanted to make a point.
Do you know what point I'm trying to make here? When someone tells you that you're overtraining, did they even care to ask you how much water you've been drinking, what supplements your taking, are you training to failure every set, are you doing high intensity cardio, are your stress levels high, etc? No. Most will never ask you that because they have no idea what overtraining is or how it comes about.
How Do You Know if You're Overtraining?
The easiest way to watch for signs of overtraining is to measure your strength gains from workout to workout. If you're making progress from workout to workout, you are definitely not overtraining. When strength gains come to a halt, you should start paying more attention to the factors that affect recovery between workouts. Are you drinking plenty of water? Are you eating enough of the right foods? And so on...
As long as you are making progress, you don't have to worry about overtraining.
But if progress slows, you first need to make sure you're drinking enough water and eating plenty of healthy and nutritious foods. A simple increase in water intake and improvements in food and amounts of that food will turn everything around for you.
If you're staying sore for extended periods of time... let's say for more than 4 to 5 days in the same muscle group, you most likely need to take a break from weight training. This shouldn't happen unless you're doing way too much weight lifting and too high a frequency. Soreness is not the best indicator of recovery, but if it occurs for long periods of time, you've done too much damage and need an extended break to let your body recover. Simply take a week off.
The WLC Program Prevents You From Overtraining
In the WLC Program Package, I've included a special section on Rest and Recovery. You learn the keys to preventing overtraining along with the optimal intensity for lifting weights. You'll learn your own body, and you'll never have to rely on one of those so-called experts to guide you in the wrong direction.
Learn how to decrease stress levels. Stress is one of the bigger factors that can prevent you from making progress. If you don't decrease stress in your life, you'll never make optimal progress.
If you aren't getting plenty of sleep, you could overtrain very easily. Sleep is very, very important to your progress. You need to take action in order to improve your sleep, and the WLC Program includes the tips you need to get better sleep.
The WLC Program also includes other special tactics for increasing rest and recovery from workouts. Optimal results can only be achieved if you are resting and recovering optimally from each and every workout. Build muscle faster and burn fat faster with the WLC Program... a complete program.
To prevent overtraining, you should always take a complete break from weight lifting after every weight training cycle. A weight lifting program should last around 8 to 15 weeks and then a break should be taken to allow your body to recover fully from the stress that you've put it through.
This break not only prevents overtraining but allows you to make unbelievable progress the following cycle by deconditioning your muscles. - 17274
I cannot take it any more!!! No one can tell anyone they are overtraining without knowing much more about the person, their weight training program, their diet, their sleep habits, the stress in their life and much more. The nonsense must stop now.
Those so called Internet experts cost me years and years of my time, money, and effort. I could have made much faster progress if I wouldn't have taken their advice. I built my website and this newsletter to get the truth out there to as many people as possible. I don't want you to go through the same crap that I went through.
Why Someone Doesn't Know If You're Overtraining...
No one can look at your weight training program and tell you that you're overtraining or that you're doing too much. Why is this? Because there are too many factors that go into the overtraining equation. Every single person out there is different. Two people can do the exact same thing... One may overtrain while the other may not. We are individuals with different lives. No one can tell you that you're overtraining!
Here are just a few of the factors that affect whether or not you are overtraining...
1) Hydration
2) Nutrition and Diet
3) Cardiovascular Exercise
4) Program Adjustments
5) Intensity of Weight Training
6) Weight Lifting Frequency
7) Pre and Post Workout Diet
8) Supplementation
9) Rest
10) Stress in Your Life
11) Traits Passed Down from Your Parents
12) Level of Conditioning
The factors affecting recovery from workouts that I've listed above are still only a few... The list goes on and on. Your entire life and what you do each and every day affects your recovery from workouts and your muscle building and fat burning results. No one will ever be able to tell you that you're overtraining. It's something you're going to have to watch out for yourself.
Did you know that you could workout 7 days per week for years and not overtrain? All you would have to do is start out easy, keep intensity low, increase your conditioning, and continue to increase workload and intensity as your body adapts to the increased workout load. Now I don't recommend 7 days per week... I just wanted to make a point.
Do you know what point I'm trying to make here? When someone tells you that you're overtraining, did they even care to ask you how much water you've been drinking, what supplements your taking, are you training to failure every set, are you doing high intensity cardio, are your stress levels high, etc? No. Most will never ask you that because they have no idea what overtraining is or how it comes about.
How Do You Know if You're Overtraining?
The easiest way to watch for signs of overtraining is to measure your strength gains from workout to workout. If you're making progress from workout to workout, you are definitely not overtraining. When strength gains come to a halt, you should start paying more attention to the factors that affect recovery between workouts. Are you drinking plenty of water? Are you eating enough of the right foods? And so on...
As long as you are making progress, you don't have to worry about overtraining.
But if progress slows, you first need to make sure you're drinking enough water and eating plenty of healthy and nutritious foods. A simple increase in water intake and improvements in food and amounts of that food will turn everything around for you.
If you're staying sore for extended periods of time... let's say for more than 4 to 5 days in the same muscle group, you most likely need to take a break from weight training. This shouldn't happen unless you're doing way too much weight lifting and too high a frequency. Soreness is not the best indicator of recovery, but if it occurs for long periods of time, you've done too much damage and need an extended break to let your body recover. Simply take a week off.
The WLC Program Prevents You From Overtraining
In the WLC Program Package, I've included a special section on Rest and Recovery. You learn the keys to preventing overtraining along with the optimal intensity for lifting weights. You'll learn your own body, and you'll never have to rely on one of those so-called experts to guide you in the wrong direction.
Learn how to decrease stress levels. Stress is one of the bigger factors that can prevent you from making progress. If you don't decrease stress in your life, you'll never make optimal progress.
If you aren't getting plenty of sleep, you could overtrain very easily. Sleep is very, very important to your progress. You need to take action in order to improve your sleep, and the WLC Program includes the tips you need to get better sleep.
The WLC Program also includes other special tactics for increasing rest and recovery from workouts. Optimal results can only be achieved if you are resting and recovering optimally from each and every workout. Build muscle faster and burn fat faster with the WLC Program... a complete program.
To prevent overtraining, you should always take a complete break from weight lifting after every weight training cycle. A weight lifting program should last around 8 to 15 weeks and then a break should be taken to allow your body to recover fully from the stress that you've put it through.
This break not only prevents overtraining but allows you to make unbelievable progress the following cycle by deconditioning your muscles. - 17274
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