1. What is Overtraining?
Training is putting stress on your body by any type of exercises.
During training you destroy your muscles fibers, your body is created lactate and the effect is that you are getting tired.
You take a rest, you recover, rebuild your muscle fibers, refuel your glycogen and you are ready for next workout.
But what if you put to much stress to your body, day by day or you don’t take enough time to recover? Then you can notice Overtraining.
Overtraining can be good and bad, small overtraining is necessary to keep your body improving and get stronger.
A good training plan should be optimized well enough that you can’t really feel overtrain because you are able to recover between workouts.
But overtraining can be the cause by other things, for example, stress at work, it is not directly overloading yourself but it is decreasing your ability to recover. Without adjustments in your training plan, you can start seeing symptoms of overtraining.