Overtraining Symdrome: Are You Exercising Too Much?
You can expect mistakes to bother you during the course of your fitness regime from time to time. Obviously mistakes occur without your knowledge, but they can also help you to rectify your strategies next time. One such mistake is "Overtraining". Overtraining is common during an exercise session. It is the physical as well as the behavioral state of mind which occurs after you perform exercises beyond your recovery capacity. Overtraining can cause adverse effects on your strength and fitness. One of the most important principles of exercise is "overload". It signifies overloading your body in order to derive the maximum benefit from a particular exercise. It can be in the form of intensity, duration or a frequency of exercises or a combination of any of these. But sometimes, despite hard overload training, one may experience an unexplained decline in performance and physiological functions that can extend over weeks, months or even years. This is what you expect in