I have a question (sorry if it's lenghty). I saw this post (open discussion forum) about overtraining with this comment made in it "Doing too much (like both of the Pyramids in one day) is going to shut your body down and get you even further from your goals of weightloss and toned muscles. Doing too much is also hard on your heart."
It got me thinking......so here are my questions and I'd love to hear from the expert herself.
Doesn't everyone respond to exercise differently, i.e., overtraining for one person would not necessarily be overtraining for someone else (depending on the shape they are in - I'm not talking about lifting weights for the same body part 2 days in a row - I'm talking about the intensity of your workouts mainly). This is the impression I was under anyway. I know there are a lot of people on this Forum that exercise twice a day and some people exercise up to 3 hours per day. I would think that this would be considered overtraining, but from what I read on this Forum, I am confused. Right now I only workout 1 to 1.5 hours per day and reading all of the checkins and seeing how much others do, always makes me feel like I should be pushing harder (which I most likely could if I didn't have time constraints).
Also, is it true that the more advanced you get and the higher intensity you go per session, the more your body can handle and the more your body thinks it needs to make it respond in a positive manner? What I'm wondering (for example) is that if you did the August rotation (which was very difficult)would your body think it needs this type of intensity all of the time with the longer sessions, or does your body adapt when you go back to the less intense routine and still responds?
It got me thinking......so here are my questions and I'd love to hear from the expert herself.
Doesn't everyone respond to exercise differently, i.e., overtraining for one person would not necessarily be overtraining for someone else (depending on the shape they are in - I'm not talking about lifting weights for the same body part 2 days in a row - I'm talking about the intensity of your workouts mainly). This is the impression I was under anyway. I know there are a lot of people on this Forum that exercise twice a day and some people exercise up to 3 hours per day. I would think that this would be considered overtraining, but from what I read on this Forum, I am confused. Right now I only workout 1 to 1.5 hours per day and reading all of the checkins and seeing how much others do, always makes me feel like I should be pushing harder (which I most likely could if I didn't have time constraints).
Also, is it true that the more advanced you get and the higher intensity you go per session, the more your body can handle and the more your body thinks it needs to make it respond in a positive manner? What I'm wondering (for example) is that if you did the August rotation (which was very difficult)would your body think it needs this type of intensity all of the time with the longer sessions, or does your body adapt when you go back to the less intense routine and still responds?