Quotes About Overtraining

One sign of possible overtraining is a lack of a pump during your workouts.)

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

Even most training errors, such as overtraining, originate in the fear of suffering.

While regular physical activity improves immune function and lowers respiratory infection risk, sustained and intense exertion may have the opposite effect. As you go from inactive to active, infection risk declines, but at a certain point, overtraining and excessive stress can increase the risk of infection by impairing immune function.57 In the weeks following marathons or ultramarathons, runners report a two- to sixfold increase in upper-respiratory-tract infections.

But he'd "got a leg," as they say in horse speak. Before he'd come to Soysambu, he'd been overtrained, and his tendons had become sensitive, with a tendency to swell.