Over training/Baby steps

[LittleNinja aka Sam]

Ch 1: My expiriences

     In parkour conditioning I have experienced this dilemma several times, and it has made me extremely fatigued and made me stop training for 10+ days! It makes your eyes drowsy, your muscles extremely sore, and makes you uncoordinated. It is a shame; people over train so many times and slow themselves of course in training.
     Lets look at the science in this. When you work a muscle it makes micro tears in the muscle tissues which heal filling in the gaps making the muscle bigger. When you over train you rip your muscles an extreme amount. So much that it is not any where near healed. Therefor making you more sore and fatigued. It can damage your muscles like knee damage due to intense landings. I started to experience this on my knees and stopped training for a long time. Now it is (as far as I can tell) healed.

     So please, take my advise and stay with in your range.
          Best of luck in your training, little ninja.

Chadmanx

"Haha, not bad little man. Here's some more to help you learn.

The tiny microtears and the rebuilding of muscle is a process called hypertrophy. You do not need to feel sore to experience hypertrophy and muscle fatigue can be because of several reasons relating to, yes, over training, but also can be because of diet related issues.

A landing isn't so much damaging your muscles as it is destroying ligaments and bones that keep your knee sturdy. An improper landing places huge amounts of stress on the skeletal structures. Muscles generally won't be sore from improperly training heights you aren't conditioned for, they'll negate the max amount of force they can and place the rest on the skeletal structures which causes elevated stress levels on the synovial joints.

Grats for understanding that pain is your body telling you something is wrong and having the right mindset to listen to it and let itself heal.

Keep studying and keep training!"

I will, and I plan to do something involving physical wellbeing because of my great knowledge for my age. Thanks guys, peace by LN.


Ch 2: Recognizing it

     1st off, baby steps, don't alter your conditioning routine with bigs steps.
Symptoms

• fatigue
• soreness
• eyes hurting (like when you have too little sleep)
• un-coordination

Also your sleep routine might affect this.

[Charles Moreland]

Haha, not bad little man. Here's some more to help you learn.

The tiny microtears and the rebuilding of muscle is a process called hypertrophy. You do not need to feel sore to experience hypertrophy and muscle fatigue can be because of several reasons relating to, yes, over training, but also can be because of diet related issues.

A landing isn't so much damaging your muscles as it is destroying ligaments and bones that keep your knee sturdy. An improper landing places huge amounts of stress on the skeletal structures. Muscles generally won't be sore from improperly training heights you aren't conditioned for, they'll negate the max amount of force they can and place the rest on the skeletal structures which causes elevated stress levels on the synovial joints.

Grats for understanding that pain is your body telling you something is wrong and having the right mindset to listen to it and let itself heal.

Keep studying and keep training!

[Steven Low]

Landings without proper impact absorption damage the synovial joints and articular cartilage by smashing them against each other. The ligaments and bones themselves aren't really affected that much.

Anyway, the BEST way to gauge overtraining is if you performance is decreasing. If it is, the take a few days off. You will NEVER overreach significantly with this technique much less reach the point of overtraining (months of exacerbated overreaching).