What the heck is this?

[TNT1]

Oh, wait, its my reputation what precedes me... 

[Willehond]

Indeed!  How can you ever expect just a straight answer?!

 

Just for the record, I stand by my previous statement that overtraining is very difficult to achieve for non-professionals.  If you really want to know, grab Tim Noakes'running bible (The Lore of runnning) and page through it for a proper understanding of it as he is THE expert on it. 

[Slowbee]

Bob, another reason for over training getting into the picture, is well pain and reputable popular cycling magazines using the buzzwords "rest days".

 

Feeling pain is percieved as not being good, and to recover from the pain (read overtraining) I need a rest day. Pain being felt when ones goes for a 20km ride and the thighs get sore going uphill, downhill, flat, oh wait thats cause the wind is blowing gale's in CT.

 

hope this hepls

 

 

 

[slowgo]

[Edition 507]

No need to be mean now' date=' 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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TNT1, in my 35 odd years of cycling, I have only overtrained once, that was yonks ago when I was an over zealeous teen racer. Since then never again which goes back to my facetious earlier comment, that in order to overtrain, you first have to train. Work, Family and commitment to alcoholic beverages rarely permits me enough training time in order to get to the point where I can actually overtrain. 

[Iwan Kemp]

What the heck is this overtraining thing you lot are all suddenly going on about? Did they mention it on stoopidcycling or something? Weirdos.

Ha ha..."stoopidcycling".

[Nancy Drew]

Oh' date=' wait, its my reputation what precedes me...  [/quote']

 

You over your little bout of PMS now Bob?

 

 

[TNT1]

 

Oh' date=' wait, its my reputation what precedes me...  [/quote']

 

You over your little bout of PMS now Bob?

 

 

 

Must be. I even started a nice heart warming thread about saving bunnies... At least it warmed my heart

 

[Nancy Drew]

Oh' date=' wait, its my reputation what precedes me...  [/quote']

 

You over your little bout of PMS now Bob?

 

 

Must be. I even started a nice heart warming thread about saving bunnies... At least it warmed my heart

 

That's cos all the blood in your brain was rushing through your heart to your shpongle.....

 

 

[javadude]

Bob, you know how after a hard day on the hub your mouse hand muscles feel stiff, maybe even a bit painfull? Well, after a couple of years your mouse hand will become overtrained from repetitive use and strain.

 

My best advice to you is to always allow for easy hub days after particularly hard days, maybe even a total break from posting if you have been doing some heavy posting intervals. Other symptoms of overtraining are slow recovery and higher than normal resting heart rates.

 

Its therefore always best to invest in a heartrate monitor and make sure you never hub without it.

 

[RockCoach]

I overtrained once and that was in my first year of riding. Over a period of 2 months I rode every single day between 1 and 2 hours per day and most days I tried to exert maximum effort.

 

Eventually just started going slower and slower. Had no energy. I'd put in a medium effort and I just wouldn't recover from it for the rest of the ride. Flats started to feel like uphills. Then i got sick which thankfully kept me off the nike for more than a week.

 

Lesson learned.

 

[SwissVan]

What the heck is this overtraining thing you lot are all suddenly going on about? Did they mention it on stoopidcycling or something? Weirdos.

 

Going to skip the 5 pages and tell you what overTRAINING is...

 

The inability to stay awake with the background noise of clickety clack, clickety clack, clickety clack, clickety clack, clickety clack zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

I'm overtrained for sure, 2 hrs of commuting by train everyday leads to overtraining