Avoid Over-Training Fitness Tip
If you feel burnt out, weak and/or sore, you are probably
over-training. Not providing your muscles with enough rest will often
prevent you from making improvements. Training the wrong muscle groups
on consecutive days will also counteract your good results. Doing too
many sets and exercises per muscle group will also cause over-training.
Remember that weightlifting, especially in an intense program, produces
what's called 'tissue micro trauma.' Those tiny tears in the muscles
that temporarily decrease strength and cause varying degrees of muscle
soreness. It is absolutely necessary to provide ample rest time between
successive training sessions. Muscles generally require about 48 hours
for the resting and rebuilding process before you work them again.
Another example of over-training is doing duplicating movements of
several similar exercises for one specific muscle group. It makes no
sense to do three sets of Bench Press with a barbell and then do three
sets of Bench Press with dumbbells or Push-ups. Each of these exercises
requires exactly the same movement and works the same specific muscle.
Instead for example, it would make much more sense to do bench press
for overall middle chest (either barbell, dumbbell, or machine); to do
incline bench press for upper chest; and to do dips for lower-outer
chest.
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