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.
This is Why Someone Can’t Tell You You’re Overtraining…
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 some of the factors that affect recovery from weight lifting workouts:
1) Fluid Intake
2) Diet and Nutrition
3) Cardiovascular Exercise
4) Weekly Program Adjustments
5) Intensity of Weight Training
6) Frequency of Workouts
7) Pre and Post Workout Eating
Supplementation
9) Rest
10) Levels of Stress
11) Traits Passed Down from Your Parents
12) Conditioning Level
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.
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.
My point is… No one knows how much water you are drinking, how much you’ve been sleeping, how much stress is in your life, how hard you lift each set, how much cardio you do and the intensity you do it at, and so on. In other words, DO NOT LISTEN TO THE SO CALLED EXPERTS on message boards and forums all over the Internet telling you that you’re overtraining.
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…
If you’re building strength each workout, you don’t have to worry about overtraining.
When progress slows or comes to a halt, you should ensure you’re doing everything else right. You must be eating enough of the right foods, drinking the correct amount of water, getting plenty of sleep, decreasing stress in your life, stretching, etc. Small and simple changes can get those strength gains started again. And strength gains lead to muscle gains.
If soreness is present that never seems to go away, you most likely need to take a break from weight lifting for about a week or so. If you’ve been training hard for more than 3 months without a break and are having trouble making progress, you need to greatly decrease your workload or take a complete break.
How The WLC Program Prevents You From Overtraining…
An entire section on Rest and Recovery is included in the WLC Program Package. You will not only leanr how to prevent overtraining, but you’ll learn how to optimize recovery between weight training workouts which leads to faster and bigger gains in muscle size and muscle strength.
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.
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.
An important tactic for preventing overtraining that you can use immediately is to take a full one week break after every weight training cycle. A weight training cycle can last anywhere from 8 to 15 weeks. Then, you need to take a break. No strenuous activity is allowed during the break so your body can fully recover.
The full one week break will prevent overtraining in the future. If you continue to beat down your body with no break, your body will eventually shut down from overtraining. You’ll lose motivation, interest, and you’ll probably become sick.
