How do you know when you've recovered from a workout?

[kentucky]

How do you know when you are fully recovered from a workout?



How do you know when you over-train?

 

[The Red Dragon]

2 days - week?

Overtraining has symptoms that are very recognizable lol. Headaches, stretched out feeling, loss of apetite, tired/fatigued all the time but you can't quite fall asleep, stressed/anxious etc. It's not pleasant.

 

[casualbb]

I do fullbody, so my recovery time is the highest frequency I can workout without overtraining.

Weirdly enough, I can do 3x/week no problem at all, but if I switch to 3.5x (don't take full weekend off), I start to overtrain pretty quick. That one extra day of rest makes a ton of difference.

-casual

 

[kentucky]

I do fullbody, so my recovery time is the highest frequency I can workout without overtraining.
-casual

how long are you in the gym each day?

 

[casualbb]

I'd say 20-45 minutes depending on how rushed I am and how busy the gym is.

-casual

 

[AGP]

overtraining is not a fun thing.

being tired all the time sucks!

 

[kentucky]

20 minutes for a full body workout????? how DO you do it?

 

[casualbb]

Empty gym, 11 exercises, 1 set each. But that's only if I'm in a super-rush, which means the whole thing is like a giant super-set HIIT cardio session. Leasurely, it's about a half hour.

"Stimulate, don't annihilate!"

-casual

 

[Legion Kreinak2]

Overtraining is most certainly unpleasant!

 

[JollyRogers]

HST ?