Andrea's Adventures - OVERTRAINING. Recognising the red flags and Leaving the Ego at the Door8/17/2023  Training is good for you, right? So it makes sense that more training and harder training is even better, yeah? Well, it’s not that simple. In fact, too much of the wrong type of training can be counterproductive. There has to be a balance and when that balance is out of whack, bad things can happen.
Training can be as much a psychological game as it is a physical one. There are the mind games we play with ourselves. I've done some soul searching on this given my recent experience with overtraining. I'm no psych but I believe, for me, it comes down to growing up in a time where coaches believed in huge loads of intense quantity rather than balanced quality. If you have a tendency to overtrain, maybe it could be due to this too. Or maybe you had parents who pushed and pushed (I didn't, but I've certainly seen enough of them in my lifetime!). When I was in the thick of overtraining syndrome, Rowan suggested I write down my thoughts and experiences, from how I came to be here, how it feels, and the path to recovery. I’ve written this blog from personal experience in the hope that by sharing my journey, you won’t ignore the red flags like I did. And in the hope that you might recognise some of those flags when they first start waving in your face.
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