Overtraining vs. Overreaching. Are You Training too Much for Your System to Handle?

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So how does this “overreaching” differ from over training? It is a matter of degree and incorporating ample rest and recovery and sensible training progressions.

By Dara Wittenburg

BT.com Contributor

As triathletes, we train hard; we have to balance training for this one sport that incorporates 3 disciplines. Along with this we still have to find time for the rest of our lives: family, work, sleeping and eating, with some left over for relaxation and a social life. Training also necessitates one more very important factor: rest and recovery. If we don’t have enough R and R and we have too much intensity/volume in our training, we are bound for the land of overtraining. Combine this with a lack of sleep, the great stressors of work and possible family pressures, a poor diet or not enough calories in general, and we have a recipe for gradually decreasing performance and overtraining.

 
But, as we all know, to get better we have to overload the system (which is known as overreaching); we have to train in a way that stresses the body so that it comes back stronger, faster, better. [.....]

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date: May 16, 2005