What the heck is this?

[TheLegend]

haha.

youboob or youbob?

 

 

[TNT1]

sorry, I meant facespace...

[Edition 507]

Shew... At least I'm not at risk of this quasi-ailment then... Odd boys.

 

The only ailment you are suffering from at the moment is your quasi-intellect. You are going to be dissappointed when it gets cured

[TNT1]

Have no fear. It is well documented that I am the runt who is the lowest common denominator of this forum. It's all good.

[TNT1]

But seriously, someone who thinks they can have a legitimate stab at it, what the heck is over training?

[AndreZA]

When you have trained so much that you are eventually gatvol and your progress is actually going backwards because of it.

 

 

[wannabearacer]

overtraining occurs after excessive training and your body is not given sufficient time to rest and therefore recover. professionals hardly ever overtrain because A) they are very specific about which training cycle they concentrate on (periodisation) and B) they are extremely well conditioned and are able to handle the huge amounts of training. overtraining has a number of different symptoms as mentioned before. some people will get some others all and still others very few of them.

 

[Joe Low]

Seriously though' date=' why is only funriders who talk of overtraining? I never here of pros here or overseas being overtrained?  [/quote']

 

Seeming to take the approach of Pink "I wanna start a fight" might explain the lack of response from over-trained funriders who fear the wrath of Bob.

 

But to move things along a little, speaking as a serious-neverwaz-midlifecrisis-A-type-funrider:

 

a) we don't all have coaches to manage our training, so

b) we often don't know what we're doing, so

c)we get tired, but

d) saying we're tired is a bit sad, so

e) we want a sporty word for it - so

 

WE'RE OVERTRAINED.

 

Your go.

 

 

 

[fiasm]

JL

[Anticlimb]

Agree , it's when you are really gatvol getting up every morning at 4h30 to go riding . That's all .

 

By the way TNtietie , is it that time of the month again ?

[pastapouch]

Well, December is advertised as a time to put in base miles. For what!  The World funride Champs is far away from December. Dec is the time to rest and party! Now, they didn' rest or party(the stupids), and now they try and build up quickly for the WFC! Thats what happens when you do base training in Dec.

[Edition 507]

Seriously Bob, overtraining is real. Pros generally have coaches and doctors looking after them in order to keep them in good condition so that they don't overtrain. On the other hand, over zealous amateur racers and ignorant fun riders typically don't pick up the symptoms of over training until it is too late.  I?m no sports scientist but my understanding is that when you train you push your body beyond its capacity and actually break it down somewhat. Rest allows your body to recover, rebuild and strengthen, so your new capacity is now slighly higher than what is was. This is an iterative process on the path of getting fitter and stronger. However, if you don?t afford your body enough time to rebuild i.e. you overtrain, then you eventually weaken your body to the point where your performance takes a fat dive ?cos your body just can?t cope with the physical demands anymore. You often very susceptible to getting sick at this stage because your immune system is also weakend. It can take a good few weeks to recover from this. Overtraining is often a result of the misconception that training makes you stronger, so the more you train the stronger you get. This is wrong. Training makes you weaker, the rest and recovery after the training makes you stronger.

[Slowbee]

 

Seriously Bob, overtraining is real. Pros generally have coaches and doctors looking after them in order to keep them in good condition so that they don't overtrain. On the other hand, over zealous amateur racers and ignorant fun riders typically don't pick up the symptoms of over training until it is too late.  I?m no sports scientist but my understanding is that when you train you push your body beyond its capacity and actually break it down somewhat. Rest allows your body to recover, rebuild and strengthen, so your new capacity is now slighly higher than what is was. This is an iterative process on the path of getting fitter and stronger. However, if you don?t afford your body enough time to rebuild i.e. you overtrain, then you eventually weaken your body to the point where your performance takes a fat dive ?cos your body just can?t cope with the physical demands anymore. You often very susceptible to getting sick at this stage because your immune system is also weakend. It can take a good few weeks to recover from this. Overtraining is often a result of the misconception that training makes you stronger, so the more you train the stronger you get. This is wrong. Training makes you weaker, the rest and recovery after the training makes you stronger.

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to add to this - the muscles hurt so much that even when you walk everything cramps - all the time. Feels like someone is using a hammer on your legs with each step you take.

 

Getting on your bike again - is just hell, but hey they say pain is good ..... yea right.

 

 

[TNT1]

Right, thanks for clearing that up, JL and carboboy. Anticlimb, maybe, but I'm feeling much better today.

 

So I understand now that I had a priveledged introduction to this sport as I was properly coached by professionals from the beginning. Whee.

 

[Willehond]

Right, thanks for clearing that up, JL and carboboy. Anticlimb, maybe, but I'm feeling much better today.

 

So I understand now that I had a priveledged introduction to this sport as I was properly coached by professionals from the beginning. Whee.

Mental health professionals can help your cycling?

[TNT1]

 

No need to be mean now, wilddogman... I  actually really wanted to unpack this overtraining thing, as I have never experienced it in 24 years of cycling. I was actually sincere in thanking the respondents to my questions. Whatever.

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