| Hey Friend,
I hope you're having an awesome weekend :-)
Over the past couple e-mails we've been covering the topic of overtraining and how to monitor your workouts so that you can determine if you are on the right track, or if you need to make any changes to your
workout routine.
Today we're going to cover 2 more aspects that you should be keeping track of...
Changes In Bodyweight...
If you experience any unexplained changes in your bodyweight, this could be a sign of overtraining.
For example, if you are currently training to gain muscular size and bulk up and you are hitting the gym hard and consistently. But you find that your weight is going down, when it should be going up, then you may very well be overtraining.
When you overtrain your body doesn't get a chance to fully rest, recover, and grow. This can prevent you from gaining new muscle, and in some cases it can even cause you to lose some of the muscle that you currently have right now.
So if you find that you're losing bodyweight when you're not trying to, this is not a good sign, and most likely you're going to have to modify your diet and training program accordingly.
Energy & Motivation...
Your levels of energy and motivation can also help determine if you are overtraining or not. Even though this one is much more subjective because it's based on how you feel, it can tell you a lot about your overall training and nutrition program.
Generally when your energy and motivation levels are high, you'll also make your best gains in the gym. But if you have been training hard and consistent for several weeks or months in a row and then all of a sudden you find that your strength, energy, and motivation for your workouts starts to drop, then this maybe a sign of overtraining.
Putting It All Together...
Overtraining is not something that happens in a single workout, it's a process that builds up over time. Just because you have a bad workout where you don't feel 100% doesn't necessarily mean you are overtraining.
There are a lot of variables that can affect your strength and energy levels. From a poor nights sleep, stress at work, or being mentally preoccupied with some other important issues that are going on in your life. So don't automatically think that just because you have a bad workout from time to time that you're automatically "overtraining".
But if you notice that over a period of time that you're not making strength gains (or even losing strength), that you're not making any muscle gains (or even losing muscle), and that you're constantly feeling a lack of energy and motivation towards your training. Than these are all critical signs that you could be overtraining, and that something needs to change with your diet and training program.
If you would like some help with this, I can set you up with your very own customized diet and training program. In addition to this I offer one-on-one online coaching via e-mail and Skype calls where we can trouble shoot your program and help you reach your personal muscle building and fat loss goals.
Click Here to get your very own Customized Diet & Training Program.
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