Overtraining Lies, Lies, Lies
Have you ever been told that you're overtraining? I bet those same people that have told you that you're overtraining are the same people that tell you to work each muscle group only once per week to failure every set.
I'm fed up as I'm sure you are with the Internet experts that give out bad information. Many of these people simply regurgitate useless information given to them in magazines packed with pictures of huge bodybuilders that shoot up with steroids each and every day. We've got to put a stop to this nonsense.
Do not listen to the so called message board and forum experts that argue with each other and put each other down. I'm sure you've seen it before on many of the top message boards and forums. I took advice from the people that simply 'sounded' like they knew what they were talking about. Of course, they didn't. I had to experiment myself for years before finding the truth.
Don't Let Anyone Tell You You're Overtraining... They Don't Know
Do you have any idea why someone can't look at your weight lifting program and tell you that you're overtraining? I've even heard those experts tell people that working out more than 3 times per week is overtraining. Amazing I tell you. Simply amazing. There are WAY TOO MANY factors for anyone to tell you that you're overtraining... Way too many.
Here are just a few of the factors that affect whether or not you are overtraining...
1) Hydration
2) Nutrition and Diet
3) Cardio Exercise
4) Weekly Program Adjustments
5) Intensity of Weight Training
6) Weight Training Frequency
7) Pre and Post Workout Diet
8) Supplementation
9) Total Sleep
10) Stress Levels
11) Genetics
12) Levels of Conditioning
The factors I've listed above are only a few. Can you tell me how someone can tell you you're overtraining without knowing anything about you, your life, your diet, etc? They can't!
If I told you that you could workout 7 days per week without overtraining, would you still call me crazy? Because you can do exactly that and not overtrain. You would definitely need to know what you were doing, but you could pull it off and make good progress. I don't recommend 7 days per week as I am just trying to make a point.
What's my point? My point is no one and I mean no one can tell you that you are doing too much without taking into account all the factors that affect recovery between workouts. They need to know how your progress is coming along, how much you've been sleeping, the stress levels in your life, do you stretch, do you perform low or high intensity cardio, do you go to failure every set of every workout, etc. So never listen to someone who tells you that you're overtraining without taking into account all the factors.
How Do You Know if You're Overtraining?
Measure your strength gains from workout to workout. You should be making progress every workout. Sometimes you'll hit a little bump in the road and strength gains will slow down but they'll usually pick back up with an intelligently designed weight training program. If strength gains slow for several workouts, then you may need to make some changes.
As long as you are making progress, you don't have to worry about overtraining.
If progress slows or comes to a halt, the simple way of fixing that is to first ensure you're optimizing all the factors that affect recovery between workouts. Are you sleeping enough? Drinking enough water? Do you need to decrease the stress in your life? Simple changes can kickstart your progress again!
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.
This is How The WLC Program Prevents You From Overtraining...
The WLC Program Package includes an entire section on Rest and Recovery. You'll find some of my biggest secrets for increasing recovery between workouts. You'll learn how to prevent overtraining by finding the optimal weight training intensity for you.
Stress levels in your life must be decreased. When you decrease stress levels, you will get better results. Decreasing stress is easy when you know how. If you want to make good progress, you MUST decrease stress in your life.
Sleep is also a huge factor affecting overtraining. You must get plenty of sleep each night if you want to build muscle and burn fat optimally.
I even have a few special tactics in the WLC Program that you can use to increase recovery from workouts even more. You won't find information like this anywhere else. Use this information, and you'll never have to worry about overtraining again. You'll know you're doing everything you can to get the best possible results.
And one of the most important tactics you can use right now to prevent overtraining is to take a full one week break before and after every weight lifting cycle. With the WLC Program, a weight lifting cycle usually lasts around 10-12 weeks and then you get to take a full one week break.
The required break from weight training after each cycle allows you to make amazing progress each and every cycle. The break allows your muscle mass to decondition from any load which allows you to make amazing progress the following cycle when following an intelligently designed weight lifting program. - 17269
I'm fed up as I'm sure you are with the Internet experts that give out bad information. Many of these people simply regurgitate useless information given to them in magazines packed with pictures of huge bodybuilders that shoot up with steroids each and every day. We've got to put a stop to this nonsense.
Do not listen to the so called message board and forum experts that argue with each other and put each other down. I'm sure you've seen it before on many of the top message boards and forums. I took advice from the people that simply 'sounded' like they knew what they were talking about. Of course, they didn't. I had to experiment myself for years before finding the truth.
Don't Let Anyone Tell You You're Overtraining... They Don't Know
Do you have any idea why someone can't look at your weight lifting program and tell you that you're overtraining? I've even heard those experts tell people that working out more than 3 times per week is overtraining. Amazing I tell you. Simply amazing. There are WAY TOO MANY factors for anyone to tell you that you're overtraining... Way too many.
Here are just a few of the factors that affect whether or not you are overtraining...
1) Hydration
2) Nutrition and Diet
3) Cardio Exercise
4) Weekly Program Adjustments
5) Intensity of Weight Training
6) Weight Training Frequency
7) Pre and Post Workout Diet
8) Supplementation
9) Total Sleep
10) Stress Levels
11) Genetics
12) Levels of Conditioning
The factors I've listed above are only a few. Can you tell me how someone can tell you you're overtraining without knowing anything about you, your life, your diet, etc? They can't!
If I told you that you could workout 7 days per week without overtraining, would you still call me crazy? Because you can do exactly that and not overtrain. You would definitely need to know what you were doing, but you could pull it off and make good progress. I don't recommend 7 days per week as I am just trying to make a point.
What's my point? My point is no one and I mean no one can tell you that you are doing too much without taking into account all the factors that affect recovery between workouts. They need to know how your progress is coming along, how much you've been sleeping, the stress levels in your life, do you stretch, do you perform low or high intensity cardio, do you go to failure every set of every workout, etc. So never listen to someone who tells you that you're overtraining without taking into account all the factors.
How Do You Know if You're Overtraining?
Measure your strength gains from workout to workout. You should be making progress every workout. Sometimes you'll hit a little bump in the road and strength gains will slow down but they'll usually pick back up with an intelligently designed weight training program. If strength gains slow for several workouts, then you may need to make some changes.
As long as you are making progress, you don't have to worry about overtraining.
If progress slows or comes to a halt, the simple way of fixing that is to first ensure you're optimizing all the factors that affect recovery between workouts. Are you sleeping enough? Drinking enough water? Do you need to decrease the stress in your life? Simple changes can kickstart your progress again!
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.
This is How The WLC Program Prevents You From Overtraining...
The WLC Program Package includes an entire section on Rest and Recovery. You'll find some of my biggest secrets for increasing recovery between workouts. You'll learn how to prevent overtraining by finding the optimal weight training intensity for you.
Stress levels in your life must be decreased. When you decrease stress levels, you will get better results. Decreasing stress is easy when you know how. If you want to make good progress, you MUST decrease stress in your life.
Sleep is also a huge factor affecting overtraining. You must get plenty of sleep each night if you want to build muscle and burn fat optimally.
I even have a few special tactics in the WLC Program that you can use to increase recovery from workouts even more. You won't find information like this anywhere else. Use this information, and you'll never have to worry about overtraining again. You'll know you're doing everything you can to get the best possible results.
And one of the most important tactics you can use right now to prevent overtraining is to take a full one week break before and after every weight lifting cycle. With the WLC Program, a weight lifting cycle usually lasts around 10-12 weeks and then you get to take a full one week break.
The required break from weight training after each cycle allows you to make amazing progress each and every cycle. The break allows your muscle mass to decondition from any load which allows you to make amazing progress the following cycle when following an intelligently designed weight lifting program. - 17269
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