Overreaching vs Over training: How They Affect Your Body and Fitness Journey
Avoiding Overreaching and Over training: Balancing Intensity and Recovery in Your Fitness Routine.
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Over training refers to a state of chronic fatigue and decreased performance resulting from excessive training and insufficient recovery, while overreaching involves intentionally pushing the body beyond its limits for a short duration to induce performance improvements, with subsequent planned recovery. It’s important to strike a balance between training and recovery to optimize performance and minimize the risk of over training. Consulting with a qualified coach or healthcare professional can be helpful in managing training loads effectively.
1. Overreaching
Overreaching refers to a temporary state of excessive training stress without adequate recovery that can result in short-term decrements in performance. It occurs when an individual pushes beyond their usual training load or intensity, leading to a state of fatigue that surpasses their body’s ability to recover within a short time frame. Overreaching can be a planned phase of training used to induce super compensation and performance improvements when followed by proper rest and recovery. The condition that is the result of the accumulation of stress from both training and non-training activities, leading to short-term decreases in performance, is overreaching.
2. Over training
On the other hand, over training syndrome (OTS) refers to a more severe and prolonged state of training overload, where performance decrements persist for an extended period and can even lead to chronic fatigue, hormonal imbalances, decreased immune function, and other negative physiological and psychological effects. OTS requires longer recovery periods and more comprehensive interventions to restore optimal performance.
Over reaching is a planned and manageable phase of training, and over training syndrome represents a more serious and long-term condition. Monitoring training loads, ensuring adequate recovery, and listening to body’s signals are important in preventing or managing these states.
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