Feeling overtrained/sluggish

Yeah, take a week off. If your head isn't in it then you'll just go backwards by training. The mental side is a large part of overtraining. Your thoughts are connected to the physical. There's nothing wrong with eating dessert every now and then, it's not going to make a significant difference to your weight and will probably help you mentally as well. Relax a bit.

 

I remember when I first reallystarted boxing (I had learned some off my brother)....we boxed 5 days a week..one day a old pro from my hometown (who has since died, he was about 80 in 1999) came in too watch the training. As he left...he said to our trainer, "YOU ARE WORKING THEM TOO HARD!" and walked out....trainer kind of bitched about it...and said "they need conditioning" he was a army guy who had boxed on the army team and really did push conditioning (sometime without enough skill work). All that might have been fine.but at the time i was only working part time, and going to college..so I would wake up, go for distance runs. short days were 2 miles but usually 4-8 miles, with occasional 10 mile runs (sometimes i would do sprints..but than do a 2 mile run to end it, lol)..come home...go out walking for an hour.....come home....go swimming (all this was in the summer). Go to the boxing workouts. Than late at night do body building type lifting workouts.



Anyhow..i started over training bad..getting all kinds of injuries....feeling tired..pissing brown stuff.....than..i got in the ring with some 130 pound hispanic kid...who actually sucked (I was about 170 than) and got ****ing owned in sparring.


My point is...don't over train. If nothing else...lay off the running for a bit..and the weights...do you take weekends off? if so..than take a friday and a monday off. Stay off the running and weights for a few weeks.

 

Even while preparing for a fight, if Goody Petronelli thought that Marvin Hagler looked stale, he'd stop the session and make him take a day off.

 

There are things that are done in the gym that are Boring. Its the coaches responsibility, to be aware of it. Also be aware of Form, a change is as good as a rest, make the Skill sets interesting, Long chain routines, working on Body mechanics Skill sets that are Fun. I do it often, get great results, plus theres always a smile on everyones Face .

 

Roid up. If you feel tired and overtrained that means you aint taking enough PEDs.

 

The just "suck it up" attitude is ****ing dumb old school ****. As an athlete you need to know your limit. If that limit is surpassed you take a break.

Goals give you a purpose. You should always have a goal in every aspect of your life, it's what keeps you moving forwards. Being the strongest of your friends, running x distance in x time, making x amount of money per year, buying a certain expensive gift to yourself, whatever. Always have a goal, mate, it makes a huge difference to the way you think.

 

Breaks are good for you my friend, I was training at one point for about a year straight..burned out, then went to basic..trained my ass off for another 8 months straight, burned myself out. You do more harm than good when pushing it that much, take some time to dedicate a day to running or a day for technique

 

For improvement you constantly have to over load but if you do it too rapidly you will fall into the bracket of "over-training" which means you have been putting your body through over loads which are too extreme and/or too regular that the body doesn't have time to fully heal itself by the time you get to the next training session. As time goes on you may be able to increase your bodies ability to the point where you can go through your current training schedule without becoming "over trained" because the body will be able to take on greater loads but until then rest and better diet is the answer.

Better diet and rest are the only cures for true clean athletes.

 

take a week off.....eat right..sleep right..take a mulivitaim..if you are doing a really intense workout..than dont work out for much more than an hour (although skill work, like lite shadow boxing i dont count towards that time). if you are working out 6 days week...than you might be able to do a few two a days..but you wont be able to do 6 of them.