Overtraining Lies, Lies, Lies

Have you ever been told that you’re overtraining? I bet those same people that have told you that you’re overtraining are the same people that tell you to work each muscle group only once per week to failure every set.

I’m fed up as I’m sure you are with the Internet experts that give out bad information. Many of these people simply regurgitate useless information given to them in magazines packed with pictures of huge bodybuilders that shoot up with steroids each and every day. We’ve got to put a stop to this nonsense.

Those same people that are telling you that you’re overtraining are the same people that cost me years and years of wasted time, money, and effort. I’m sick of bad information. I want you to finally learn the truth about overtraining. If you’d like to learn the truth, please continue reading.

Why Someone Doesn’t Know If You’re Overtraining…

No one can look at your weight training program and tell you that you’re overtraining or that you’re doing too much. Why is this? Because there are too many factors that go into the overtraining equation. Every single person out there is different. Two people can do the exact same thing… One may overtrain while the other may not. We are individuals with different lives. No one can tell you that you’re overtraining!

Here are the factors that affect your recovery from workouts:

1) Fluid Intake

2) Nutrition and Diet

3) Cardiovascular Exercise

4) Program Adjustments

5) Weight Training Intensity

6) Weight Lifting Frequency

7) Pre and Post Workout Eating
8) Supplementation

9) Total Sleep

10) Levels of Stress

11) Genetic Factors

12) Level of Conditioning

The factors affecting recovery from workouts that I’ve listed above are still only a few… The list goes on and on. Your entire life and what you do each and every day affects your recovery from workouts and your muscle building and fat burning results. No one will ever be able to tell you that you’re overtraining. It’s something you’re going to have to watch out for yourself.

If I told you that you could workout 7 days per week without overtraining, would you still call me crazy? Because you can do exactly that and not overtrain. You would definitely need to know what you were doing, but you could pull it off and make good progress. I don’t recommend 7 days per week as I am just trying to make a point.

Do you know what point I’m trying to make here? When someone tells you that you’re overtraining, did they even care to ask you how much water you’ve been drinking, what supplements your taking, are you training to failure every set, are you doing high intensity cardio, are your stress levels high, etc? No. Most will never ask you that because they have no idea what overtraining is or how it comes about.

How To Know if You’re Overtraining…

The easiest way to watch for signs of overtraining is to measure your strength gains from workout to workout. If you’re making progress from workout to workout, you are definitely not overtraining. When strength gains come to a halt, you should start paying more attention to the factors that affect recovery between workouts. Are you drinking plenty of water? Are you eating enough of the right foods? And so on…

If you’re making progress in the gym in terms of building strength, do not worry about overtraining.

If progress slows or comes to a halt, the simple way of fixing that is to first ensure you’re optimizing all the factors that affect recovery between workouts. Are you sleeping enough? Drinking enough water? Do you need to decrease the stress in your life? Simple changes can kickstart your progress again!

If you have soreness in a muscle group for more than 4 to 5 days, you overdid it at your last workout. You may need to take an extended break if the soreness persists… especially if you’ve been lifting weights consistently for more than a few months. Take a week off and let your body recover before starting your next weight lifting program.

The WLC Program Prevents You From Overtraining

An entire section on Rest and Recovery is included in the WLC Program Package. You will not only leanr how to prevent overtraining, but you’ll learn how to optimize recovery between weight training workouts which leads to faster and bigger gains in muscle size and muscle strength.

Learn how to decrease stress levels. Stress is one of the bigger factors that can prevent you from making progress. If you don’t decrease stress in your life, you’ll never make optimal progress.

Sleep is another very important factor. Do you do anything to help you get better sleep at night? Have you ever had trouble sleeping at night? If so, you must realize that you need better sleep to get better results. You’ll learn how to improve sleep with the WLC Program.

Within the 400+ pages of the WLC Program, you’ll find secret tactics that I’ve used to increase rest and recovery from workouts even more! Some of the tactics I will teach you are so amazing that your results can literally double. You don’t get information like that with any weight lifting program.

And one of the most important tactics you can use right now to prevent overtraining is to take a full one week break before and after every weight lifting cycle. With the WLC Program, a weight lifting cycle usually lasts around 10-12 weeks and then you get to take a full one week break.

This break not only prevents overtraining but allows you to make unbelievable progress the following cycle by deconditioning your muscles.

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