Understanding Overtraining. Part 1

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Preview of: Practical Programming for Strength Training by Mark Rippetoe & Lon Kilgore with Glenn Pendlay.

Key to understanding progress in any athletic endeavor is the concept of overload. Overload represents the magnitude of work required to disrupt biological equilibrium and induce an adaptation. For progress to occur, the physiological system must be perturbed, and in weight training the perturbation is heavier weight or more volume (or, for an intermediate or advanced trainee, less rest between sets) than the athlete is adapted to. The overload is applied to the system through training referred to as an overload event.
For novice trainees, each workout constitutes an overload event. For intermediate and advanced athletes, the heavier elements in a week or more of training might constitute the overload events. But without recovery from an overload event, the overload does not contribute to progress. Overload without adequate recovery just induces overtraining, an imbalance between training volume or intensity and recovery has occurred, such that performance, while expected to drop initially, will not recover and super compensation cannot occur. Performance will remain depressed from the initial overload and will suffer further decline with continued loading or overtraining can be understood as the failure of comprehensive recovery processes to overcome metabolic and structural fatigue. The effects of fatigue are so pronounced that recovery processes, which may be either unaffected or diminished, are nevertheless overwhelmed, leading to persistent and potentially escalating fatigue. The end result is the inability to train and to perform at the previous level.

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