A well-known training principle is "excessive recovery", that is, if you want to make progress, you must challenge your current physical limit. It's useless to lift the same number of times, the same group and the same weight in the weightlifting room every time. You must lift heavier things step by step and more times.

After experiencing fatigue and temporary physical decline, if the body gets enough rest and recovery, its ability will go further than before, which is called "excessive recovery" in strength practice. Auxiliary group, super group and backward force are all means to obtain excessive recovery, with the aim of breaking through the strength limit of bodybuilders.

Challenging the limit often leads to overwork, and if it is not paid attention to and corrected in time, overtraining will occur. The difference between overtraining and overtraining is only an "amount of exercise", but the result is a positive and a negative. Excessive recovery is a positive adaptation process. Under the premise of not causing overtraining, the key to mastering the appropriate exercise load is to give the body sufficient nutrition and rest time after challenging physical fitness. Overtraining is often caused by excessive exercise or lack of rest, which is manifested as fatigue, decreased performance, emotional changes and instability.

Fatigue and overtraining

How to distinguish normal fatigue from overtraining? Once the amount of training exceeds the endurance limit of bodybuilders, and there is no timely adjustment and rest, the sports performance will drop significantly and it will take more time to recover.

At this time, emotional changes are common, and some people will have injuries, such as inflammation such as colds. This phenomenon is caused by the development from "overwork" to "overtraining". If the bodybuilder can reduce the amount of exercise, reduce the intensity and increase the rest in time, the inflammation will disappear and there will be no future trouble. But if you don't pay attention to the signals sent by your body and don't make adjustments in time, you will really overtrain.

An important difference between overtraining and moderate fatigue is the change of mood, and obvious emotional instability is the characteristic of overtraining. In addition, there is no standard to distinguish between moderate fatigue and overtraining in scientific literature.

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