Are You Over training?
It is possible to train too much or too often to receive maximum benefits for your efforts.
Sometimes when we have a fitness goal we allow ourselves to get carried away. We fit strenuous exercise in wherever we can often to the point of exhaustion. If that wasn't hard enough we then fail to allow our bodies time to recover. If your training performance is becoming diminished you might be suffering from over training, this condition alters the firing of the body's sympathetic nerve fibers. Fitness is important for a healthy lifestyle and necessary to achieve athletic goals, but when does it become too much?
A study out of the University of Guelph set out to test the theory that "train to the point of complete exhaustion, so that when you rest and recover, you will be able to preform at a higher level". They examined the effects of training on the body's nervous system response, and found a high rate of firing in the muscles nerve fibers. They found this to be a temporary jump as a result of training to exhaustion as the rates don't often change day by day, and the results for athletes who trained at regular intervals fared much better with more consistent results. The conclusion is that when you over train your body, you don't receive all the benefits of a regular exercise program, proving consistency is best.
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